Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example: In November of 1916 the Federal Reserve Board warned American investors against taking the unsecured paper obligations of foreign governments. Virtually the only governments whose paper of that kind was involved were England and France, whose American agent, in their pay, was J. P. Morgan & Co. ... It was Morgan & Co. who suggested the way to destroy it [the warning] was for England to threaten to cease purchasing American goods...
Maybe I am behind the times, for I have been in England for the past six months and have not been able to keep up with the changes being made in the American language. Is it now correct to added to form the past tense of the verbs put, cut, burst, and cast...
With Secretary Morgenthau hunting a homeward boat from Oslo, Secretary of State Hull vacationing in White Sulphur Springs, Postmaster General Farley in Paris, Attorney General Murphy in Narragansett, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins motoring in New England-and with Franklin Roosevelt in fog at sea (see p. 9)-these two politically young men (Hanes, 47; Welles, 46) last week met a war crisis full face...
...days after the Yale race, the varsity eight, with sophomore Jack Wilson replacing Bill Rowe at the vital stroke oar, sailed for England to compete in the Henley Royal Regatta. The varsity easily led London Rowing Club, Jesus College of Cambridge and Argonauts Rowing Club of Toronto in successive heats to win the great silver mug exactly 25 years after a Harvard junior varsity eight captained by Governor Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts, had captured...
...both Yale and Princeton in the annual triangular hill-and-dale grind. The swimming team lost only to Brown, Yale and Princeton. The basketball team fared poorly. The tennis team had a mediocre season, but during the summer combined with Yale to defeat an Oxford-Cambridge squad at Eastbourne, England...