Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Although Chairman John Hamilton bangs his gavel for order at 11 a.m. June 24, and Keynoter Governor Stassen begins at 10 that night, next night ex-President Hoover says his say, third day is scheduled for the platform. Thus balloting will probably not begin until Thursday, June 27-which means the loss of a full work-week for delegates, who supposedly pay their own expenses during the Convention...
...late." Toward the Chinese, for whose benefit the philanthropic Japanese allegedly designed their New Order, Tokyo was somewhat less subtle. Chungking suffered its worst bombing of the year: 154 planes, 800 bombs, 1,500 casualties. Japanese forces claimed Ichang. This was an important victory, since Ichang is one-third of the way up the Yangtze toward Chungking from Hankow. The Kunming-Hanoi' railroad line was severely bombed, leading New York Times's reliable F. Tillman Durdin to predict a Japanese attack on French Indo-China. Next day France fell, and the future status of Indo-China became vague...
...Third mission to Moscow headed by British Admiral and French General...
...Brazilian monthly Observador Economico e Financeiro, last year defined Brazil's three possible courses as follows: "1) Absolute understanding with the totalitarians; 2) economic understanding with them and political identification with formal democracy; 3) economic understanding and political identification with democracy." Preferred was the third-"if it is possible." The great and all-important economic rub to Course 3 is that coffee is the only thing Brazil exports that the U. S. wants, whereas the Germans want many raw materials, including cotton, from Brazil in exchange for her manufactured goods...
Married. Alice Damrosch Wolfe, ski-minded daughter of famed Conductor Walter Johannes Damrosch; and Herman Kiaer, Deputy High Commissioner for Norway to the 1939 New York World's Fair; in Manhattan: she for the third time, he for the first...