Word: note
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Doctrine permitted powers that had American colonies in 1823 to keep them-but not to get any more.) Moreover, said von Ribbentrop, if European nations could not intervene in American continental affairs, then American nations could not interfere in European affairs. By & large, Joachim von Ribbentrop's note made plain, Germany did not respect the Monroe Doctrine...
Died. Jules Judels, 65, long-time master of rehearsals for the Metropolitan Opera; by his own hand (gas); in Manhattan. He left a note: "Better men than me have done the same, hope the gas bill won't come too high. Have fed the cats...
...Jack Darrell, author, decade ago, of a not very successful ditty called Does Anybody Want a Kewpie?, had brought suit for plagiarism against Al Sherman and Abner Silver, whose It Happened on the Beach at Bali Bali was a hit five years ago. Darrell showed that the same eight-note theme recurs in each song. But the Circuit Court dismissed his complaint. Said its three learned judges: although there are plenty of combinations of notes, there are only a few which meet "the infantile demands of the popular ear. . . . Recurrence is not, therefore, an inevitable badge of plagiarism...
...surprising that Russia's Premier Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov took no trouble to make King Carol's capitulation easy. On the contrary, he handed Rumanian Minister Gheorghe Davidescu a brusque note demanding Bessarabia and northern Bucovina within 24 hours. The ceding of northern Bucovina, which, unlike Bessarabia, Russia never owned, would repay Russia for waiting 20 years for Bessarabia, said Viacheslav Mikhailovich. When Minister Davidescu returned to ask for negotiations to determine the procedure of transfer, Premier Molotov said flatly that the Red Army would begin to move in at 2 that afternoon and gave the Rumanian Army four...
...thought so was Franklin Roosevelt. Next afternoon a White House messenger carried a note to stubborn Harry Hines Woodring, Secretary of War, long engaged in a deadly, morale-destroying feud with Assistant Secretary Louis Johnson, and long rumored to be under pressure to resign. The note requested his resignation...