Word: downing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forebears. It was not always that way. Wilhelmina's forebears were a tough collection of fighting men. While they were still nominally under Spanish rule and before the British ran them off the sea (1654), they conquered an Empire in America and Asia in the same military manner as...
One year later she began her peace and neutrality offensive by offering her sprawling palace at The Hague for the First International Peace Conference, at which many of the present conventions governing war, the rights of neutrals, the principles of arbitration were first laid down.
Amsterdam became an international banking centre challenging in importance the City of London and the Paris Bourse. It houses such famous institutions as the Amsterdamsche Bank n. v., the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappy n. v., Mendelssohn & Co. (now defunct), whose proprietors will turn a guilder almost anywhere they can find one...
Defiant speeches drew a crowd of thousands, and patient Czech police, without truncheons or revolvers, began slowly and persuasively to edge the excited students down toward the river. Some students who refused to be herded broke from the rest, dashed into old Palace Square. Since they seemed bent on nothing...
Last week the No. 1 German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, who in early Nazi days gave Hitler invaluable fiscal support, suddenly arrived with his wife and child at the Locarno Hotel in Lucerne, settled down for "an indefinite stay." Said Tycoon Thyssen: "As a member of the Reichstag I expressed myself...