Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...government.... You are paying the kidnapper the ransom he demands, for you will be contributing to the Von Rath "fine" or to a "leaving-the-country" tax.... And if the Nazi government succeeds in getting this ransom money, it at once establishes a precedent to be followed by other European Have-Not countries, such as Italy, Poland, and Hungary, where Anti-Semitism smolders, awaiting a real test of its usefulness as an instrument of economic policy. Hence, the welfare of all the Jews in Central Europe may be at stake, and you might then face the problem of having...
Most immediate effect of this would have been to raise the prices of meat, butter and milk which Englishmen were buying in large duty-free quantities from nearby European nations. "E. F. T." has never been tremendously popular except among English farmers and dairymen, but that was the platform on which Unionist (Conservative) Candidate Aitken won his seat and kept it for six years. It has also served as the keystone of his personality and papers ever since...
...Beaverbrook idea of Empire led him to urge defaulting on the U. S. War debts (although he is now a big hands-across-the-sea man for Empire's sake), withdrawal from the League of Nations, and a European "solution" that would involve Britain in no boundary guarantees, loans, or alliances with any other country...
...Replaced as production head of Paramount's Hollywood studio by his onetime subordinate, William Le Baron, 65-year-old Adolph Zukor, kingpin of the cinema industry from 1920 to 1930, this week left Hollywood for London, assigned to "coordinate" the company's European activities...
Every so often a student announces the startling fact that European students have no examinations until the end of their final year, and laments the fact that this admirable idea is not carried out at McGill. This surprising revelation becomes less surprising, and in fact unspeakably tedious, after the umpteenth repetition...