Word: among
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany, both official and otherwise, was frankly puzzled. Police were unwontedly vague. No concerted, planned roundup of any suspected group ensued. Arrests in Munich were numerous but unsystematic: the police, evidently not knowing whom to arrest, clapped this & that one into jail-among them two American reporters, Chicago Tribune's Ernest Pope and John Raleigh...
...Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition Clement R. Attlee put first on his list of Opposition aims the idea of federation. Next day Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax broadcast to the world what were supposed to be Britain's official aims-and federation was not among them...
...large crowd gathered on Berlin's Unter den Linden, in front of the U. S. S. R. Embassy, to watch big limousines pull up and discharge swankily dressed passengers. Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and 30 of his Foreign Office assistants, wearing the new Nazi diplomatic uniform, were among the first arrivals. The Finnish and Turkish diplomatic staffs arrived in top hats and cutaways, followed soon by similarly dressed Belgian, Dutch, Italian, Scandinavian, U. S. envoys. Big German bankers, industrialists, Cinemactors Emil Jannings and Leni Riefenstahl trooped in. Editors and foreign correspondents presented their invitations...
...Among protagonists of various versions of this plan have been Clarence K. Streit (Union Now) and radical Economist Harold J. Laski, who proposed a union roughly like America under the Articles of Confederation.* Last week the chorus grew. Speaking at an audience with the Haitian Minister to the Vatican, Pope Pius XII urged formation of "a stable and fruitful international organization...
...Among the five who qualified was Alvin Untermyer's Hexameter, ridden by Patricia Bolling, a 99-lb., 22-year-old wisp whom many experts consider the most skillful young horsewoman in the U. S. today. Though Hexameter was nosed out of victory by his stablemate, Illuminator, spectators who had kept their eyes on the horses agreed that Liz Whitney had lost her reign...