Word: alfrede
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Russia's gold reserve was a cause of acute alarm to the British Government. A rumor reached London that Russia had shipped 17½ tons of gold to Germany. At first the British Foreign Office was highly skeptical of the rumor, but later, when Sir Alfred Knox...
Married. Alfred Gustavus Baker Lewis, 42, wealthy, spasmodic Socialist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts; and Mrs. Eileen O'Connor Lane, 36, Socialist candidate for Massachusetts Secretary of State last year; both for the second time; in Boston, Mass.
Married. Frederick Penrose Tennyson, 26, cinema director, great-grandson of Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Nova Pilbeam, 19, British cinemactress (Little Friend, Nine Days a Queen); in London.
Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, U. S. N., probably the world's greatest naval theorist and historian, maintained that all great conflicts could be analyzed as struggles between land powers and sea powers. By their fluidity, sea powers always won.
If the theories of the late great Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan are correct and World War II is one more struggle between sea power and land power, as the War went into its seventh week the fighting continued almost entirely in the sphere where the Allies are proportionately strongest-on...