Word: czecho
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Making money is the hobby of Director General Vickers, who is also a very active partner in the London brokerage house of Vickers D'Acosta. Fourteen months ago a munitions scandal shook Rumania. Army officers were charged with having accepted bribes to throw arms contracts to the great Czecho-slovak firm of Skoda. One of them committed suicide, others went to jail and the Skoda contracts were canceled. Not trusting any of his salesmen, Douglas Vickers was in Bucharest last week angling for this rich Rumanian prize. At week's end his London friends had the impression that...
...speeches had to be made, one to keep Nazi enthusiasm at the correct state of effervescence, another to pacify foreign opinion. To serve the first, Handsome Adolf made use of his old punching bag, Jewry, not so stupid a move in view of the active anti-Semitism in Austria, Czecho- slovakia, Poland, as it seemed to Britain...
...following nations will be represented in the Assembly: Abyssinia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Czecho-Siovakia, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, India, Irish Free State, Japan, Russia, Siam, Switzerland...
...Yale Club will open the program with four numbers: "Fight," a student song of Finland, by R. Faltin; "By Moonlight," by von Othegraven, a tenor solo; "Waters Ripple and Flow," a Czecho-Slovakian folk song arranged by Deems Taylor, sung by J. VanB. Griggs; "Danse Macabre" by Saint Saens. The Harvard singers will follow with three selections: "Give a Rouse" by Bantock; "Der Gang Zum Liebchen" by Brahms; "Fire, Fire My Heart" by Morley. The first part of the program will then be concluded by the joint rendition of several choruses from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, "The Mikado...
...Galpin, for the United States Department of Agriculture, the third volume of which will be ready sometime this fall. His book entitled "Contemporary Sociological Theories," published in 1928, has already been translated into German and Chinese, and is now in the process of being translated into Japanese, Czecho-Slovakian, and Yugo-Slavian. At the present time, three-quarters of the work of translating Professor's Sorokin's "System of Sociology" from Russian into English has been done by Dr. Sharol of Columbia, and the book will be published by Harper sometime in 1932. "Social Dynamics" will be the title...