Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, eight days before the time limit for a reply had expired, the Japanese Foreign Office proved its mastery of delicate diplomacy. A note was sent to the three powers reiterating Japan's willingness to negotiate "quantitative" arms reduction (to all-round parity), but regretting that no information would be given on current Japanese naval construction. At the same time a most interesting statement was given. It began by saving the Japanese Navy's face by stating that Japan was not concerned with the provisions of a treaty of which she was not a signatory...
...Senator had introduced a bill last year proposing that eight billion dollars be spent for three great transcontinental toll roads, and seven running north and south, chances are that condemnation from Congress, the White House and the press would have been violent and immediate. Yet when Ohio's Robert Johns Bulkley introduced just such a bill in the Senate last week, the reaction was one of tolerant understanding. Neither the President nor any member of Congress could blame Bob Bulkley, for two of his proposed roads would run through Ohio, and on August 9 Ohio Democrats will choose between...
Describing the Rightist drive, partially under his command, General Juan Yague told correspondents at captured Peralejos, eight miles from Teruel, ''The operation was the same bolsa or 'pocket' maneuver we used to such good effect throughout our northern campaign and at Brunete last summer...
...Cain's was five floors deep in trellises and pillars, spangles and swords, chariot wheels from Ben Hur, a papier-mache elephant from Face the Music, highfalutin gear from Shakespeare revivals, tinsel & gilt from Follies, Scandals, Gaieties. On one single night in 1905 John Cain moved eight shows (94 loads, 654 pieces). His son was always on hand for closings, and the sight of him in the audience required quarts of brandy to steady the actors' nerves...
...leading U. S. labor papers. In spots where the C. I. O.-A. F. of L. breach has been most serious, C. I. 0. has also started its own local papers. Frank Palmer's People's Press, brought out independently two years ago, is official organ for eight C. I. 0. unions and the Chicago Workers' Alliance, today has 36 regional editions and 310,000 circulation, biggest of any newcomer in the labor field...