Word: excerpts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the U. S. "finds itself under the necessity as a practical measure" of closing its Vienna legation and appointing a consular staff in its place. Net result, since the U. S. ministry in Austria was vacant anyway, was that John C. Wiley will stay on as consul general. Excerpt from Note No. 2: "I have to notify the German Government that the . . . United States will look to it for the discharge of the relief indebtedness of . . . Austria to the . . . United States." Austria's debt to the U. S.-for post-war relief loans-currently stands...
...White House for signature-before this column is published. . . . We may look for a mournful recital of the supineness and rubber-stampedness of a cowering Congress that could not summon enough courage to stand out against an overbearing Chief Executive." Day that the above premature excerpt from his weekly handout. Dispelling the Fog, was scheduled to be released to the press last week, the Democratic National Committee's publicity director Charles ("The Mike") Michelson sent out a hasty request to editors that it be killed as "untimely...
Robbery and looting also flourished in Nanking for many weeks. The number of Chinese executed, not killed in battle, totals by the most conservative Nanking estimates 20,000. Excerpt from a Nanking letter written at the worst period: "One [Chinese] boy of seventeen came in with the tale of about 10,000 Chinese men between the ages of 15 and 30 who were led out of the city on the 14th [of January] to the river bank near the ferry wharf. There the Japanese opened up on them with field guns, hand grenades and machine guns. Most of them were...
...other Boylston prizes, each amounting to $35, went to James Cassels Higgins, Jr. '38, for an excerpt from "Anna Livia Plurabelle," by James Joyce, and to Jonas Norman Muller '40, who gave James Weldon Johnson's "The Creation...
From Dec. 1 to mid-February the committee held 30 meetings, heard 50 witnesses, devoted most of its time and most of its 85-page report to Imperial Airways Ltd. Excerpt: "There is not today a medium sized airliner of British construction comparable to the leading foreign types. Foreign manufacturers, American in particular, dominate the European market. . . . Management has been defective . . . intolerant of suggestion, unyielding in negotiation. Air services to the West Indies and across the Pacific are an uncontested monopoly of an American Company" [Pan American Airways...