Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three times the cost in Britain. Since private shipping lines "simply cannot afford to build at these prices even with Government assistance," Mr. Kennedy explained, the only three practical alternatives were: 1) establishment of new shipyards; 2) allow building abroad when the domestic price was more than twice the foreign price; or 3) put the Government in the shipbuilding business, the "last resort...
...first Five-Year Plan. Adolf Hitler then began striking from Germany, one by one, the shackles of Versailles, and last week came the mighty moment when his chain-bursting finally carried Nazi expansion well out beyond the borders of Germany, sent it crashing not only into a foreign land but into Austria-the land in which Hitler was born...
...paper, from Communist to Rexist, dropped its bickering to honor Herbert Clark Hoover, Belgium's Wartime Relief Administrator, with fulsome editorials. Every member of the Chamber of Representatives rose in his seat at word that Herbert Hoover had crossed the frontier. Dinners and receptions were held by the Foreign Office, the University of Louvain, the College of Burgomasters and Aldermen. The Belgian Government issued a new stamp, bearing the portrait of the late great King Albert, but dedicated to Herbert Hoover...
...Bachelors need not apply. . . . Married men applying for Nei-sans will have to obtain consent of their wives. Foreigners who employ Nei-sans will be entitled to one bath a week in any of the undermentioned Bath Houses in Hongkew* free of charge. Foreign ladies can apply for Japanese male masseurs...
Well knowing the British Cabinet was splitting over Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's insistence upon policies which please France and Russia but anger Germany and Italy (see p. 22), Orator Hitler attacked the young English statesman by name, then coupled Eden with the name of a Dictator...