Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian soldiers and workers have been sent down to a steaming sun-baked port where there is hardly a tree, and water is lacking. Many of them came down without sun helmets and still dressed in their heavy European uniforms. All night long these soldiers and workers toil at discharging vessels that jam the harbor. The Italians have learned, at last, to avoid such a task as unloading ships in the day time...
...President of the Republic, according to the new Constitution, also must or may do pretty much everything else. In some dismay, Scientist Moscicki finds himself not only endowed by Article XII with the ordinary powers of a European president whose acts must be countersigned like those of a king by the appropriate minister, but further endowed by Article XIII with what the new Constitution calls "prerogatives," these requiring no countersignature. At his autocratic pleasure he can dissolve the Sejm and Senate and can dismiss the Premier, First President of the Supreme Court, President of the Supreme Chamber of Control...
...Liberia, under President Edwin Barclay, defaulted on its loan of $2,250,000 from Harvey Firestone. In 1925 when rubber was $1 per Ib. the State Department had encouraged Mr. Firestone to start a huge rubber plantation in Liberia and lend the African Republic money to pay off its European and other debts. Mr. Firestone planted 55,000 acres of rubber trees, built 100 miles of road (five times as much as Liberia had ever had before), hired thousands of natives at 25? a week, gave Liberia a brief boom. Then with Depression the Liberian Congress seized the revenues...
Introduced for the first time to Mickey Mouse at a private showing of Walt Disney's The Band Concert in London, Arturo Toscanini exclaimed, "Surely it is impossible! It is magnificent!", had the film run over again. Hearing that Cine-man Disney planned a European tour, Conductor Toscanini announced: "I shall invite him to my Italian home at Lake Maggiore. Si, si, I shall insist...
...third year of the European War Howey, attracted by William Randolph Hearst's isolationist policy concerning the U. S., went over to the Herald & Examiner as managing editor. On the Herex city desk was a battery of telephones, one painted white. When the white one rang, a desk editor seized it in a flash. It was a private wire from a police department switchboard, whose operators were on Howey's secret payroll. Detectives never could understand why they nearly always found Herex newshawks at a crime scene before them...