Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington to consider similar reductions which, if added to those by the eastern carriers, would move each bushel out of the glutted midwest to Atlantic seaports at about 9 cents per bushel cheaper than at present. The Shipping Board was approached to establish emergency freight rates on wheat to European ports as an additional means of increasing the outflow from...
Seymour Parker Gilbert. Agent General of the Reparations Commission in Germany, he has been, in effect, the house physician for European money matters. Collecting from Germany, disbursing to the Allies, he has watched Germany's financial temperature and heartbeat for three years, advising here, criticising there, until he considered his patient ready to enter another consultation for new treatments. His chief reward for his work will be more work. He is to be adopted by the House of Morgan...
Having last fortnight (TIME, May 6) established a U. S. branch, Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie last week strengthened its international position by adding the Swiss chemical industry to the European chemical cartel. For, though I. G. Dyes is not the entire German chemical industry, it does occupy a dominant position in its field, and growth of the cartel is reflected in prosperity at Frankfort. Prominence of Germany in the international chemical field is shown by the fact that cartel representatives, meeting in Paris, last week allotted 74% of the export trade to Germany, 17% to France...
...voices will be: Elisabeth Ohms, Dutch dramatic soprano, with a reputation won at the Munich and Covent Garden Operas; Antoine Trantoul, French tenor of the Paris Opera and Opera Comique; Alfredo Gandolfi, baritone, favorite interpreter in his native Italy of such roles as Don Giovanni; Tancredo Pasero, basso, of European and South American fame. Josef Rosenstock, conductor, will be imported from Wiesbaden to replace Artur Bodanzky; Ernst Lert, stage director of La Scala at Milan, to replace Samuel Thewman...
...born while. Columbus was discovering America. He held that baptism may be performed only on the believer and recognized no authority except the Bible and one's enlightened conscience. During the 16th and 17th centuries, persecution of the Mennonites for such subversion doctrines was carried on in several European countries to the extreme of exterminating every Mennonite man, woman, and child who could be caught. Gradually, however the persistence of the sect triumphed, and in 1792 the won exemption from military service in France, though Napoleon pressed then into hospital service during his campaigns. One branch of the Mennnonites...