Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snug, prosperous, heavily industrial Kingdom of the Belgians and its rich jungle Congo empire, even the worst Cabinet crisis is almost never cause for alarm. Reason: the extraordinary prestige and stabilizing ability of the Throne. Its power is a legacy from that masterly European schemer Leopold II, who died in 1909, and from his heroic successor, Belgium's Wartime King Albert. Fortunately, the throne next came to young King Leopold III, today easily the outstanding European crowned head in strength of mind and leadership. Last week His Majesty, having presided for some days over the vain efforts of Belgian...
...drew the Senate's attention at length to the conditions and prices under which the vital tropical drug quinine was available in the Congo, his recommendations leading to the State's supplying quinine free to the indigent and securing reduced prices for natives whose purchasing power by European standards...
...them. Pouncing on the deal last May the boycott council declared that it was "one of the most carefully planned and seemingly foolproof devices yet evolved by the Nazis in an effort to improve their foreign exchange position. ... Its existence was discovered by the Joint Boycott Council's European agents who were long puzzled by the substantial savings effected by American importers in the purchase of Rumanian fur;. The scheme as it revealed itself follows: American importers pay for their furs through London banking facilities and thus have in their records canceled checks showing that they do not deal...
PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT IN CENTRAL EUROPE-M. W. Fodor-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Marcel Fodor, 47-year-old Hungarian, for many years Central European correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, the New York Evening Post, takes a correspondent's-eye-view of the Danube and Balkan countries, pounces on numerous unknown and little-known facts...
Engaged. Bob Gregory, 25, claimant to the European middleweight catch-as-catch-can wrestling title, to "Princess Baba," Valeria Brooke, 21, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Rajah of Sarawak;* in London. The betrothal, which followed a whirling courtship, was opposed by Princess Baba's parents, but defended by her on the grounds that her sister. Princess Pearl, had previously married Jazz-Bandleader Harry...