Word: augusts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great Baltic power again, she appears more like the Imperialistic Russia of old than a new Communist Union, with purely selfish designs intended neither to help nor to hinder Adolf Hitler. For America and the other neutrals, if they were not convinced by the Russo-German alliance last August or the joint Polish seizure of September, the Finnish invasion will remove any hesitation they had in placing Russia and Germany in the same category...
Economist Keynes addressed to the semiofficial London Times two articles to which that august organ gave full space and a respectful editorial. His idea was that Britain should apply a forced loan scheme to all her income earners. As military production goes up in the Government-financed war cycle, production of consumer goods will go down, the cost-of-living will rise...
...missed dying out with Wilhelmina's father, William III. William's first wife and two sons died one after the other. At 62 he married the 20-year-old Princess Emma, of Waldeck-Pyrmont, a small German State. Of that marriage the sole issue was Wilhelmina, born August 31, 1880. Repeal of the Salic Law forbidding female rulers allowed her to succeed to the throne...
...debts and with a yearly allowance of $106,000 from the Government. Her Majesty did not approve, but she was said to have softened up a bit when she became a grandmother. A girl, Beatrix, was born to the Prince and Princess in January 1938, another daughter, Irene, last August...
...rapprochement between Germany and Russia began as early as 1922, and for that reason the Pact of August 24 "was more of a surprise in some quarters than it should have been...