Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Debarking in the morning, his body clad in soiled seersucker, his mind in deep anxiety, this President who needs only a world peace crown to make him perhaps the most memorable ever, did not tell the press what he had done. When he reached Washington, Mr. Roosevelt saw his State Department chiefs, Cordell Hull and Sumner Welles. Before dinner they also drafted and dispatched appeals to Adolf Hitler and Poland's President Ignace Moscicki. But Mr. Roosevelt warned correspondents that his next morning's press conference would probably yield no major news. At the conference, he referred almost...
...addressing King Vittorio Emmanuele, Mr. Roosevelt avoided the cold shoulder Benito Mussolini gave him last April, played for the hold the Italian Crown has upon the Italian People. He urged again the international discussions, military and economic, which he had proposed before. He added this note, which chimed with the Pope's plea: "The Government of Italy and the United States can today advance those ideals of Christianity which of late seem so often to have been obscured" (in Germany and Russia...
...Kong as to be a perfect base for attack, the Japanese are estimated to have 40,000 troops-as compared to an estimated 10,000 which Britain has based at Hong Kong. The odds are so long against them that the British command has already decided to abandon the Crown Colony in the event of a showdown. British commercial interests-such as the $50,000,000 Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp.-and the private property of the 16,000-odd British residents of Hong Kong are not deemed to be worth fighting losing battles for. Furthermore, prospect of sudden inclusion...
...Anglia (now the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk), whose palace was at Rendlesham, four miles away. A coroner's jury, hastily convened, decided that plates and ornaments were treasure (abandoned publicly in the ground), not treasure trove (hidden for future gain), therefore belonged to Mrs. Pretty, not the Crown...
...saddened by the death of a brilliant son, Publisher William Dargie of the Oakland Tribune died. Publisher Dargie had married a beautiful, improvident Spanish woman named Herminia Peralta, whose great-grandfather had once owned, by land grant from the Spanish Crown, nearly all the territory now covered by the cities of Oakland and Berkeley. To his widow Publisher Dargie left a half-interest in the Tribune, with the privilege of raising money to buy the other half at a court sale to settle his cash bequests. Needing cash herself, Widow Dargie got it from a friend of her husband, Congressman...