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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More members of labor unions throughout the world are affiliated with the Second (Socialist) International than with any other group. Its secretary is Dr. Friedrich Wolfgang Adler, an Austrian who in 1917 was convicted of assassinating the then Austrian Imperial Chancellor, Count Stürgkh, but was amnestied. Socialist workers throughout the world have long known that Dr. Adler always carries an extra forged passport in the name of "Al Frey" in addition to his own, but Rotterdam police have not. They know Dr. Adler well and one day last August, when he handed them his forged passport by mistake...
Divorced. Alfonso, Count of Covadonga, hemophilic former Crown Prince of Spain; by dark Marta Rocafort, his second Cuban wife within a year; in Havana...
...rely on the President after his disregard of the neutrality laws, after his Chicago speech, after the tone of his representations to Japan in the "Panay" incident? Or can we rely on the Diplomatic Service, as notoriously Anglophile as the intellectuals in the Harvard Government Department? Can we count upon Congress to keep us out of war when we have just seen it bow before the Administration's opposition to the Ludlow Amendment...
Princeton finished second among the voting of the Eastern colleges, with a 75.2 count, while Yale turned up third, with 67.1. Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium was the recipient of the tail-end prize, closely rivaled by the Yankee Stadium in New York. Navy and Dartmouth facilities were also judged among the poorest of the colleges...
...purple as one of his own grapes. Before Jan. 1, 1920, California was making 40,000,000 gallons of wine a year and California wines were being drunk in London. Wine had been made in California missions since 1769 but it began to be taken seriously only when Hungarian Count Agostin Haraszthy imported cuttings of about 500 kinds of European grapes in the 1860s...