Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...likes to be called. In organizing the "New Life Movement," the "Culture Control Movement" and other causes dear to the Generalissimo & Mme Chiang right down to the "Read-a-Book Movement," no Chinese has won more kudos than Organizer Chen. Last week Hankow correspondents asked the Great Organizer to confirm or deny persistent rumors in high Chinese quarters that he has been advising the Generalissimo to make peace with Japan. Replied Chen Li-fu: "Our fundamental policy is unchanged and we will not be intimidated by the threats to Hankow and Canton. If the Japanese finally come to realization...
...been as complete weather information available as that available here today." This was the cue for American Export Air Lines' energetic, Pan American-trained Vice President James Murchie Eaton to announce a new transatlantic air partnership-American Export Air Lines and Italy's Ala Littoria. There to confirm this news was suave Colonel Carlo Pezzani, adviser to the Balbo flight five years ago, now Ala Littoria operations chief...
...Valenti showed the investigators photographs to confirm his story. But that story was confirmed by records of the Italian Government itself. The Government boasts that today 80,000 children in foreign countries are enrolled in the Balilla. Last year it recruited 18,500 foreign children, of whom some 5,000 were from the U. S. (mainly New York City, Detroit, Pittsburgh and San Francisco), for the summer trip to Italy. Of its $6,500,000 annual budget for propaganda abroad, Italy spends nearly half to support, wholly or partly, some 800 schools, most of which...
...clambered atop a threshing machine. There he proceeded to blast away at early-spring predictions by observers in the U. S., Britain and France that Italy's vital wheat crop would fall far below normal this year. Folding his brawny arms across a tanned torso, Mussolini shouted: "I confirm that this year's harvest is superior in quality and but little inferior in quantity to that of last year...
...British military court showed it could be equally stern with Jewish terrorists. The court condemned two of the young Jews to hang, sent the third to an insane asylum. Sole hope of clemency remained with Major General Robert Hadden Haining, commander of the British Palestine forces, who must confirm the sentences. If confirmed, the two convicts will be the first Jews to be hanged in Palestine since British occupation...