Word: signal
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Circus ballyhoo is grizzled, bushy-browed Dexter Fellowes, Ringling pressagent. For 37 years Dexter Fellowes has been getting publicity for tent shows-a U. S. pressagent record. Business associates claim that he has the widest U. S. acquaintance. Even before the Circus got to town, his arrival was the signal for his friends of the press to wax waggish. He did not mind, for his policy is: let the newsmen write anything they like about...
When Mr. Gandhi should reach the sea, when he should defy the British salt monopoly,* when he should break British law by scooping up a little sea water and publicly evaporating it to recover a mere pinch of salt?what then? Would enough Indians respond to this, the agreed signal for nonviolent, mass civil disobedience? Would they obey the Mahatma, abstain from paying taxes, abstain from all obedience to British employers or superiors,? buy no British cloth, and pray that they may meet Death all innocent and nonresisting at British hands...
Hanks was formerly in the Department of State at Washington. Since August, 1916, he has been an airplane pilot, serving as aide to the Chief Signal Officer of the Army during the World War, and at present holding a commission as Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Corps Reserve. He is the author of a book on "International Airports...
Alert, 42-year-old President Compton. like his father, is a Wooster graduate (1908). He taught there one year, then at Reed College (Portland, Ore.), then at Princeton where he was made an assistant professor in 1913. During the War he was an aeronautical engineer in the Signal Corps. The year following he was associate scientific attache at the U. S. Embassy in Paris. As outside jobs, he is consulting physicist for the U. S. Department of Agriculture and for General Electric...