Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese Threat. It is easy to understand why France and Britain should not feel too unhappy at the idea of Italian control of Abyssinia. Their neighboring colonies have suffered severely from raids by Abyssinian tribesmen. Italy would probably stop that. Nineteenth Century Britain was content to discipline Abyssinia in hard-fought border skirmishes. Since then she has acquired peaceably what she wants most in the country: control of Lake Tsana, source of the Blue Nile and life blood of the thriving Sudan cotton fields. Djibouti in French Somaliland is the port of entry for all Abyssinia, and France already controls...
...admiration for royalty, when he contemplates the "cheap and tawdry inmates of the White House and the Champs Elysees," to be somewhat justified, even in the eyes of stanch republicans. One doubts, nevertheless, whether certain of King George's predecessors--Queen Elizabeth or even James II--would have been content to be chiefly decorative, or to have their royal relatives go "Empire crusading," as Sir Auston nicely and naively calls it, speaking of the Duke of Gloucester...
Nothing fazed by these plaints, Frank-lin Roosevelt promptly worked out a new arrangement to keep the 50 tycoons content: They should discuss their reports with his New Dealers in order to appreciate the official attitude, should discuss them with him in person, then, having been enlightened, revise their reports and publish them. This seemed to the President an excellent modus vivendi and no one doubted that it would work unless the tycoons, after conference with New Dealers, still insisted on being critical of Administration policies...
...raked the streets of Warsaw with gunfire for two days, kicked out the Government, and set up as President of Poland a kindly unworldly scientist who had been a good friend of the old Marshal's since their meeting in London in 1902: Ignatz Moscicki. Josef Pilsudski was content to become Premier, Minister of War and Inspector General of the Army. The last two posts he held until his death last week...
...Kansas City, Kans., were misleading because the grass was too old. Dr. Schnabel took tender, young shoots of wheat, barley, oats, rye, ground them to a meal tasting like malted milk powder, found its food value two to five times greater than spinach, carrots, lettuce or chard, its vitamin content up to 50 times greater. Hens fed on this meal laid twice as many eggs containing fivefold as much Vitamin...