Word: becking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Helsinki diplomatic Mr. Erkko remarked easily that the Russians "must have got hold of a wrong translation," but Pravda stuck grimly to contending that Finland's Foreign Minister had shown "exactly the same attitude as that of former Foreign Minister Beck of Poland. He [Beck] too made provocative speeches before the war between Poland and Germany and-as a result of this-provoked the war with Germany...
...representative at Geneva even began conversations with the Soviet delegate to design ways & means whereby a Russian Army, going to the help of Czecho-Slovakia, could pass through Rumanian territory. Stanch friend of former Czecho-Slovak President Eduard Benes, King Carol turned down cold Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck's scheme for partitioning the Czech State...
Another entry from Thomas Beck's stable meanwhile made news of a different color. To its staff of European correspondents Collier's added a cartoonist: brilliant, New Zealand-born David Low, political caricaturist for the London Evening Standard. Low will send Collier's a weekly drawing from London via radio...
Last week Thomas Hambly Beck, Crowell-Collier's president, announced that with its December issue Country Home will quit. Said Publisher Beck: "Frankly, the game is not worth the candle, and we prefer to concentrate in more profitable and promising fields...
There were some bad accidents in the mines, and Earl Jones did not like the way the Zanesville morning Times-Recorder and evening Signal (both owned by Father William Oliver, Sons Orville Beck and Henry Clay Littick) reported what happened. Nor did he like it when the Litticks played up several suits against him-one for damage allegedly done by his mine wastes to adjoining lands...