Word: corsica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with them was already rumored. The biggest telephone rival is General Telephone & Electric Corp. of the U. S. and Great Britain, affiliated with Transamerica. The cosmopolitan Behn Brothers were born on the tiny West Indian island of St. Thomas, Sosthenes in 1882, Hernand in 1880. Both were schooled in Corsica and Paris. Sosthenes, the more aggressive of the two, went to Manhattan at the start of the century, grew a beard to look older than he was, went into the foreign banking trade. In 1906 both brothers took over their stepfather's Porto Rican sugar plantation. When the Porto...
...acquisition of territory connected with the unification of Italy has been connected with a war of some sort. Present Italian unification aims at the annexation of Nice, Savoy, and Corsica from France. It also demands expansion in Africa at the expense of France. The essential basis of Italy's claim to these places is an Italian population, sometimes as much as ten percent sometimes not so much. The Fascisti are breeding with extraordinary proclivity. Mr. Mussolini's theory is to spread his population over the face of the earth and when there are enough of them in one spot--annexation...
...collection of cattle comprises eleven different kinds of buffaloes, from Africa, India, America, Malaya, Java, and Tibet. The sheep and goat heads include specimens from the high mountains of North America, Asia, Corsica, Sardinia, and the Alps...