Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stockmarket Flayed. Gambling in stocks is international. Britons, Germans, Frenchmen, the King of Spain, Chinese, the King of Afghanistan and speculators of every race were participants in the U. S. crash of 1929. Naturally, last week, the most popular speech at the Conference the only one interrupted by incessant laughter and cheers was a great flaying of the New York stockmarket by Chicago's droll, drawling "Mel" Traylor...
Comrade Molotov, more specific, opened last week by stating that Russia's relations with Turkey are "most friendly"; with Japan, Persia and Afghanistan "also friendly"; with Italy "satisfactory"; with Germany "improved"; with Great Britain "fair." Poland, Comrade Molotov bluntly called a "vassal of France." France he mentioned as "the greatest menace to world peace-the European powder magazine...
...Connecticut Naval Militia obtained a three-year leave of absence and prepared to sail for Syria, where he will join a scientific tractor-caravan expedition being organized by Vice President Georges Marie Haardt of Citroen Corp. to follow the route of Marco Polo across Syria, Irak, Persia, Afghanistan, Tibet, China. Mrs. Polly Lauder Tunney planned to go as far as Beirut. Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross of Connecticut who lately majored Tunney for his staff, expressed regret...
...Slavery, by Lady Kathleen Simon (wife of Sir John), London, 1929 (Hodder & Stoughton). Her well-documented slavelands list: Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Arabia, Sierra Leone, Liberia; also ("modified slavery") Portuguese East Africa, Portugal's West African Islands St. Thome & Principe, French Equatorial Africa, Tanganyika etc. Lord Cecil recently estimated that there are at least 5,000,000 human slaves today. Liberia's estimated population, including freemen...
...convince the Royal Academy of the desirability of a Persian exhibition was child's play. Maintenance of friendly relations with Persia and Afghanistan are vital to Britain's defense of India. Persia has added British importance as the site of enormously rich British-controlled oil fields...