Word: finale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twenty minutes later the U-boat fired three or four torpedoes and these, striking in quick succession, caused the ship to capsize and sink." Final figures from the Admiralty put the dead at 810, survivors...
Last week, following up the sell-out achieved by his collected messages to his chief while Ambassador to Germany, Sir Nevile Henderson authored another White Paper. It was a 12,000-word first-hand study of Hitler, the Nazis and the Germans, written as his final report to Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax. Perceptive, witty and compassionate as a Jane Austen novel or a Lytton Strachey biography, it steered hard away from the old 1914 concept of the Germans as Huns or their ruler as The Beast of Berlin. Instead, it described them as understandable dupes and Hitler as a powerful...
...general impression of this last talk with Field Marshal Göring was, in fact, that it constituted a final but forlorn effort on his part to detach Britain from the Poles...
...Board of Directors of Rockefeller Center, Inc. mailed out big 11" x 8½"), formal, engraved invitations requesting "the honour of your presence at a ceremony in the course of which Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. will drive the last rivet [of silver alloy] in the fourteenth and final building of Rockefeller Center on Wednesday afternoon, November first...
After a round million words of debate, the Senate has finally come to the point: it has repealed the arms embargo. Everyone, repealist and anti-repealist alike, must be glad that a final decision has been reached, for it has been obvious from the start that the Administration had the votes. Further debate could only serve to keep the pot boiling, and the minds of the people in confusion. It was an issue that must have disturbed those who gave it only casual attention. On first sight, both sides seemed to be right, and only those who gave the matter...