Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bold reporter asked if Dr. Luther was being taken off in a tug to avoid a Jewish anti-Hitler demonstration in Manhattan. Striding forward, Dr. Kiep heatedly exclaimed: "No- No- No- Herr Luther is in a hurry to get to Washington. He has said all he cares to say in this statement." Dr. Kiep pulled a typewritten sheet out of his own pocket. "Here, I'll read it to you. 'Diplomatic etiquet pre-venting...
...reading, while it seems extensive, has great variety and has been excellently chosen. The lectures are well Coordinated with it and at the same time avoid repetition. The lectures them-selves very, but on the whole, are fair enough. They can be expected to show considerable improvement, as this is the first year they have been delivered by the men in charge. One gets the impression that Chamberlin and Mason are more interesting than some of their presentations would indicate...
Rotter. The Rotter Brothers, Jewish theatre owners and musicomedy producers, once most prosperous, now bankrupt, fled Berlin in January. In the Principality of Liechtenstein last week they were ambushed by six young Germans, apparently Nazis. Alfred Rotter and his wife jumped over a cliff to death to avoid kidnapping. Franz Rotter, handcuffed, sprang from the kidnappers' car, broke his shoulder...
Large among questions before the court were: Did weather conditions justify the Akron's takeoff? (Commercial passenger planes were grounded that day.) Were proper efforts made to avoid the storm centre? Should life belts have been carried? (Because of their weight they were not part of regular equipment...
...close of a 30-minute talk with the President in the latter's private office, Matsuoka granted a short interview to the CRIMSON. He refused to discuss the Manchurian question, remarking that he did not wish to talk about state affairs if he could avoid it. "I have agreed to make a few short speeches at private gatherings, and tonight I plan to address the Japan Society, but aside from that, my only statement about the League of Nations and Japan is that Japan wishes the League 'God speed.' I know I speak for the majority of my people when...