Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He next appealed to the Supreme Court, without success. The U. S. State Department issued an extradition order, and last week Captain Hatfield reluctantly entered the custody of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. As he set off for Ottawa to await trial he hoped "for an early return to my snug harbor at Candia...
...year at the Dutoitspan mine. With the world once more buying diamonds, said Sir Ernest, two other mines would soon be reopened: Bultfontein and Wesselton. Jagersfontein and Premier, where the great Cullinan diamond, world's largest (3,106 carats— 1 2/5 lb.), was found, would have to await larger quotas to permit profitable operation...
Their two hearts beating as one, II Duce bade farewell to General Goring, reportedly promised to visit Dictator Hitler in June or July, sat back to await the arrival of two other potent Germans, Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath and War Minister Marshal Werner von Blomberg. Quickly commented Mussolini-mouthpiece Editor Virginio Gayda, of Giornale d'Italia: "Nothing in Europe without Italy and Germany. Nothing against Italy and Germany." It looked as though an egg of unusual size were being hatched in the Fascist incubator...
...tzensee Penitentiary in Berlin sat pale-faced, intellectual Helmuth Hirsch, the 21-year-old Jew who was arrested last December for plotting to kill with a bomb "a high German official" who newshawks quickly assumed was Dictator Hitler. Hirsch declared: "I expect no clemency and I am calm and await death with perfect composure." Less calm was Berlin's U. S. Consul Raymond H. Geist who had gone to great pains to intercede for Prisoner Hirsch on the grounds that, though his family lives in Czechoslovakia, he is a U. S. citizen because his grandfather was. This week...
...hill across the border is less steep, for General Motors Ltd. largely gave way before the strike commenced. The forty-hour week, extra pay for overtime, grievance committees, and seniority rights are conceded by the company, which opposes most stiffly the question of union recognition. Negotiations on this issue await only the withdrawal from the employee delegation of an agent of the Detroit United Autoniobile Workers. It is the extraordinarily aggressive tactics of the C.I.O. agitators swarming in the lumber, pulp and mining districts of Ontario that anger the people and Premier Hepburn, who on his record might favor peaceful...