Word: foreigner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sought to force on Germany their will-an epoch in which Germany came close to the abyss-German efforts have succeeded in bringing about a revival. . . . The period of violence and one-sided dictatorship was succeeded by a period of negotiations and understanding. . . . Liberation of the Rhineland from foreign occupation will be . accomplished in a short time. Reparations will be reduced by important yearly sums. . . . "This development may now, all of a sudden be cut off. A referendum has been introduced which . . . seeks to create an appearance that Germany could now force her wishes and demands on the victors...
...every country (excepting only Russia) matches are distributed by one of the 225 subsidiaries of Swedish Match Co. Of every four matches, three are made in its home or foreign factories. Big customer of Swedish Match has been Germany, where the company controls 70% of the match production. Last month it was rumored that there had arrived in Berlin the man who is behind the great Swedish Trust, Ivar Kreuger, mainspring of Kreuger & Toll Co. which holds the majority interest in Swedish Match. As usual with Kreuger visits, his object was not known, his movements veiled in mystery. Germans wondered...
Although Herr Kreuger has raised many millions of dollars in foreign countries, none of his expansion program has been attended with any risk of loss of control. Class A shares of Kreuger & Toll, central Kreuger company, must be held by Swedes; Class B shares, permissible to foreigners, carry only one vote per thousand shares...
Birthday. John Dewey, most famed U. S. pedagog-philosopher; in Manhattan. Age: 70. For three days he listened to fellow pedagog-philosophers gathered by a national committee around Columbia University, speak on "John Dewey's influence in the Schools," "John Dewey's Influence on Education in Foreign Lands," "The Philosophy of John Dewey," "John Dewey in Social Welfare...
...Trenton, N. J. celebrates 250th anniversary of its settlement. Nov. 5-7-Nebraska celebrates its Diamond Jubilee. Nov. 11-Armistice Day. Foreign News...