Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There may be one European country, not yet a League member, which has increased its armaments while all others have decreased theirs.* Its signature is attached to the [Kellogg] Pact of Paris renouncing war of aggression, but I do not know that it has renounced another kind of warfare which some regarded as a holy war,† thinking they and they alone understand the truth which they desire to impose upon other countries...
...problems of growing competition. From the conference, there emerged, tentatively, an agreement. Welshmen said they would not compete in Canada and South America, where U. S. capital is invested in the food packing industry, large user of tin plate. U. S. manufacturers promised to tack away from the European markets, pre-War stronghold of the Welsh...
Slain. Elizabeth, Countess Fischler von Treuberg, 58, famed European adventuress; by Edgar Beese, German flier, who committed suicide at the same time; in Berlin. Born in 1870, a tailor's daughter, Elizabeth Uhl became a wealthy, fashionable courtesan, celebrated in Continental capitals and on the Riviera. In 1911 she won long-sought social standing by her marriage to Count von Treuberg, a bankrupt naval officer. She had arranged to pay him 25,000 marks, but never did so and the marriage was later annulled. Aviator Beese's father, mother and sister all were suicides before...
Herr Hugenberg remained in the background while the Congress deliberated. But his lieutenant, General Director Ludwig Klitzsch of UFA, made a significant speech. He hinted at new tariffs to keep the flood of U. S. pictures from German theatres. He spoke of "cooperation in the European film industry and the word 'film-Europe,' " strongly suggestive of a European cartel aimed at the U. S. cinema industry. When he had finished, alarmed U. S. observers hastened to Paris to confer...
...lovely widow of the old school. Naïvely Judy demanded Martin's championship versus parents-which is all very well till he falls in love with her. He thereupon escapes to Africa; she and her brood, un-championed, lapse into their hectic scattered existence at smart European hotels, in the feverish wake of this parent or that...