Word: familiarize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Look at the picture today! We are more familiar with Hitler's latest edict (made at 10 a. m. today) than we are with what our 14-year-old daughter, Jane, was doing out until 3 o'clock this morning. If we want to communicate with Neville Chamberlain concerning the Munich disagreement, we have a cablegram on the way before we have had time to think what we should...
...Announced that any law firm retaining former SEC employes for advice on matters with which they became familiar while at SEC might lose its right to practice before SEC. SEC thereupon sued to enjoin former SEC Lawyer William J. Mahaney from "continuing to disclose" confidential information to his present employer, Banker L. M. Giannini, who is fighting an SEC attempt to delist the stock of Transamerica Corp. from the New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles exchanges...
...Exempt Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands from the arbitrary wage minima prescribed for the U. S. and let committees familiar with island industries figure out how to raise wages without ruining island industries now accustomed to living in an economy with a much lower scale of prices...
...familiar gypsy trick is to enter a grocery store, wait until proprietor and clerks are occupied with important customers, then tuck turnips, garlic, apples, other staples under the ample gypsy blouse. Japan, adept at this gypsy technique, last week took advantage of France's and England's busy dickerings with Italy and Germany to slip seven small potatoes-the Spratly Islands-under her kimono...
Nevertheless, the German press this week began carrying stories of attacks by Poles on German women and children, the all-too-familiar German method of preparatory propaganda before expanding the Reich frontiers. The rolling stock of the Polish Railway Administration was removed from Danzig and environs and "more than 10,000 troops" were moved into Gdynia, Polish port twelve miles from Danzig. The Polish standing Army was increased to some 400,000 men and the Polish Army journal, Polska Zbrojna, published a defiant editorial labeled We Are Ready...