Word: becks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poland's Beck [March 6, 1939] - Ditto...
Until he was 43, he lived alone. In 1931, a tall, pretty, quiet, 30-year-old schoolteacher from Cody, Wyo. named Jane Beck arrived in Peking with her brother on a round-the-world tour. The Becks and the Johnsons had been friends for three generations, so Jane and her brother stayed at the Embassy mansion. The guests stayed on & on, but since that is the way of Peking, no one was surprised -till one day the bachelor diplomat quietly told his friends that he and Jane Beck would be married the next...
From Shanghai and business, Ambassador Johnson went to Peking and pleasure. In Peking with the Ambassador's wife are her son, Nelson Beck ("Nubby"), 6, and daughter, Betty Jane, for whose fourth birthday this week he made the trip north. He had not seen his family since last May (in the U. S., after a trip out of China via the then brand new 2,100-mile Burma road, over which the Ambassador was the first civilian to drive...
...London the British Foreign Office promptly placed on view the cablegram from Sir Howard Kennard to Viscount Halifax on which the latter based his assurance to Germany. Wired British Ambassador Sir Howard: "Colonel Josef Beck, Polish Foreign Minister, most grateful for the proposed reply to Herr Hitler, authorizes His Majesty's Government to inform German Government that Poland is ready to enter at once into direct discussion with Germany...
...road Progressive in politics, was accused of "standing on his head, talking upside down, smearing crocodile tears over his dirty face." If Premier Cajander did not watch out, Pravda hinted, he would find himself in the company of onetime President Ignacy Moscicki and onetime Foreign Minister Josef Beck of Poland...