Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Netherlands East Indies the Japanese suddenly discovered a fresh wave of "anti-Japanese sentiment." This caused the Tokyo Government to deliver a strong note of protest to Netherlands Minister General J. C. Pabst. Since the Japanese have failed to get all the oil they want from the East Indies, this protest looked like the beginning of a new economic holdup. The Japanese have always considered it fair to shoot a recalcitrant holdup victim...
...super-sane note was struck by followers of Mrs. Frank Granger Logan's Chicago Society for Sanity in Art: Loganite Painter Oscar Scharer hung, as the All-Illinois Art Society's "picture of the week," a painting of a horse laughing at a gallery wall of surrealist and abstract pictures...
...Italy. In September, Rudolf Diesel set out for England to see a Diesel plant inaugurated there. He and two friends took a Channel steamer at Antwerp. They had dinner, strolled on deck, went to their staterooms. When the boat docked at Harwich, Diesel was not on board. No note, no clue, no trace of his body was ever found...
...went into the lobby. Ten minutes later an attendant found him slumped in a chair in the ground-floor men's room. At his feet was a 32-calibre automatic. Blood ran from the hole behind his ear. In the memorandum book police found an eight-page note to his wife. Over & over it repeated: "This is the only way out. ... I am tired of fighting. ... I am unworthy of your love. ... I am a failure...
...most startling note in the popular group is Harvard's acceptance of the conventional path. When the country acclaims a band or song or when a number is rated high on the Hit Parade broadcast, sales to Harvard students take a rapid jump. Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, and Will Bradley are praised and followed by the Harvard faithful. At the moment, Bonny Goodman is making a comeback since the critics have approved his new band...