Word: midways
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...YORK--The New York World's Fair of 1939 and 1940, a gaudy and colossal flop financially, but a great show while it lasted, stripped down to the last midway cutie's last G-string last night and sounded quavering taps to a World of Tomorrow. It had bravely tried to lead toward peace and freedom, and expired, full of debts and disappointment...
McCoy has conducted his nightly grillings on & off since early last year. Beginning at the World's Fair Midway, he has pitched his way through Ripley's Odditorium on Broadway, is stationed now in the lobby of a Child's Broadway restaurant. No stooges participate in his shows. Everyone is welcomed to his mike except roaring drunks and obvious lunatics. He entices clients from Manhattan crowds by rumbling: "Step up, brother, stop your mad rush to the grave," proceeds to subject them to a barrage of jests, jibes and singularly unabashed questions. At high speed, he whirls...
Washington still held to its tortuous course midway between appeasement and action, while the Navy itched for a go at the little yellow men in their big boats (see p. 32). As usual U. S. public opinion was slow to react, because its leaders had as yet to give it clue or cue. The State Department, in this month before election, was even charier than usual of taking a firm stand until it knew what the reaction was. But in Tokyo, where the Government not only informs but makes public opinion, there were many signs that Japan intended to force...
...puppet Government at Nanking) and "restore The Netherlands Indies as an Asiatic country." In a telegram to Publisher Howard, Director Hoshio Mitsunaga of the Nippon Press Association suggested that the U. S. can prevent a crisis if it "abandons its fortifications at Pearl Harbor, Guam and the Midway Islands, gives up its support of Chiang Kai-shek and restores trade to normalcy...
...aiming at," said Kokumin. "By leasing the British bases in the Atlantic, the United States is foreshadowing its future advance in the Pacific. . . . It is now believed that it will extend its grip on Singapore and The Netherlands Indies by speeding up the expansion of bases on Guam, Midway and other Pacific possessions. It is only natural that the Japanese Navy, with its policy of non-menace and nonaggression, should be greatly concerned over this undisguised challenge by the United States...