Word: lion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transfer of refugee children from Central Europe to Palestine, crusading Comedian Izzy Iskovitch, better known as Eddie Cantor, proudly let it be known that young Palestine settlers have named the town of Kvutzat Aryeh in his honor. The children translated his first name as "Aryeh." Its meaning: "The Lion." Informed that Motor Magnate Henry Ford had accepted the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from the anti-Semitic German Government on the occasion of his 75th birthday fortnight ago, The Lion roared: "Mr. Henry Ford, in my opinion, is a damned fool for permitting the world's greatest gangster...
...last week took the famed Chinese pottery centre, Kiukiang. their objective for the past month. In joyous terms, as though announcing a victory, the Chinese press boasted of the enormous quantities of shells and bombs the capture of Kiukiang had cost the Japanese. The heroic Chinese defenders of the Lion Hill Forts, sworn to fight to the last man rather than yield, were congratulated for having held out for 72 hours under heavy artillery fire before they fled...
Japanese forces, advancing by land and water up the Yangtze River toward Hankow, were delayed last week besieging the Chinese Lion Hill Forts 145 miles down stream near Kiukiang. Daring Chinese fliers in swift, efficient Soviet-built planes bombed and battered Japanese river gun boats, claimed to have sunk 25 and badly damaged 19. None denied that numbers of disabled Japanese craft were being towed down the Yangtze for repairs at Shanghai, Chinese spokesmen even admitted boldly that planes which hitherto have been driving Japanese bombers away from Hankow and the other Wuhan cities last week, left this defensive work...
...because Big Business designed its price policies primarily for monopolistic and profit-hogging reasons. The new Brookings book, Industrial Price Policies and Economic Progress, therefore took as its theme the factors that entered into an executive's choice of certain prices for his company's products. Lion's share of the credit for the first four volumes went to the Institution's president, bald, vigorous Harold G. Moulton. Actually the concept was as much the creation of its Institute of Economics director, tall, distinguished-looking Dr. Edwin Griswold Nourse (rhymes with "course") and the latest book...
Hopping mad at recent bombings of British ships by Spanish Insurgents, Elder Statesman David Lloyd George, never willy-worded himself, assailed Great Britain's "twittering little protests," demanded "since when has the British lion been like that?'' In court for misbehavior on a public highway were: Harvard's President Emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell, who had his Massachusetts license permanently revoked after two accidents last August, sued for $35,000 damages; Peter G. Lehman, son of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman, who paid a $2 fine for improper parking; German-American Bundleader Fritz Kuhn...