Word: born
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...career of August Adolph Gennerich, born in 1886 in Yorkville, Manhattan's German district, had not up to that time been entirely undistinguished. At the early age of 22 he had found an occupation that admirably suited him, a job as a New York City policeman. On the force he was by turns athlete, motorcycle patrolman, hero. He was cited three times for bravery, once for capturing a earful of bandits who peppered him for a mile and a half with a machine gun until their car overturned. He was also a member of the bomb squad...
...diplomatic comradeship. Counselor Wiley married a Polish sculptress named Irene Baruch. Relations between Ambassador and Counselor soon cooled to the extent that John Wiley was transferred to Antwerp as Consul General. But the distress of Ambassador Bullitt was not so easily ended. There was not a single U. S.-born wife among the career men on his staff. Beset by thoughts of tattling tongues and divided loyalties, he complained to his good friend President Roosevelt that his staff dinners resembled League of Nations functions, that he could not speak his mind in comfort...
...foreign service's 684 married officers, 127 are now wed to foreign-born women, as are 202 of the service's 724 U. S. clerks. Until passage of the Cable Act in 1922, a foreign woman marrying a U. S. citizen automatically acquired his citizenship. Since then, such mates have been forced to seek naturalization. Partly because of their difficulties in fulfilling residence requirements, the wives of only twelve of the 76 foreign service officers who have wed aliens since 1922 have become U. S. citizens...
...wants?" roars Colonel Wedgwood. "This crisis to my mind is an insult to the United States! What is it that makes an American inferior to a German?"-i. e., the Prince Consort Albert or Queen Mary, whose girlhood title was Princess of Teck in Germany, though Her Majesty was born in England. "Personally I believe the Cabinet is wrong about the Dominions," continues Colonel Wedgwood, "I believe the Dominions are behind the King, just as are the mass of people in this country!" Says beefy Lord Castlerosse, the inseparable companion of tiny Lord Beaverbrook: "The King M has an inferiority...
...above mentioned trail I witnessed one of the finest exhibitions of fast cross-country skiing by the Lapplands, whom I believe to be born skiers and the most skillful race of skiers in the World. They are short, sturdy, broadshouldered, averaging five to five, five in height...