Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tariff Tory. But until the aims of Russia's Five-Year Plan become realities Russia must trade with the outside world. The Anglo-Russian embargoes, results of the British engineers' propaganda trial two months ago, have been a serious blow to the Soviet. It is a safe bet that M. Litvinov will do nothing to disturb the Conference until he has finished his private bargaining with the British Foreign Office in an effort to have both embargoes lifted without loss of face by either country...
...fellow Romanoffs. News of his two brothers' execution by the Bolsheviks did not prevent his attending a dinner party. No very ardent believer in the divine right of kings, he held the unpopular view that the Romanoffs were out of Russia for good; in 1919 he bet the members of the U. S. Delegation in Paris that "within the next 20 years nothing would be left of the Treaty of Versailles and that the Soviets were to endure in Russia...
...Apperson, descended from Carolina-Virginia stock. His mines, ranches, banks, race horses and friends were one of the greatest collection ever made even in old California. He also owned $7,500,000 worth of the Anaconda; his million acres in Mexico pastured 48,000 cattle; and he would have bet any amount of it all on the landing of a fly on a lump of sugar. He went to the Senate on the appointment of a man he had fought for the Governorship. President Cleveland preferred him to Senator Leland Stanford. (After his death Phoebe Apperson Hearst did almost...
...never could understand how a nation as level-headed as I consider the American nation is, could have believed all the lies this nation really has believed about us during the War. After reading your article "National Revolution." I changed my opinion. ... I am not a Nazi but I bet if ever you Americans will have a revolution, more blood will be shed and more wrong will be done as has been at this last German...
...about an even bet whether the trial will provide a great sensation on unexpected lines or will fizzle like a wet squib...