Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sophomore William Spurrier of the University of Illinois was Mrs. Margaret Strothers, Negro proprietress of the bawdy house. Indicted for intentional dereliction of duty in not suppressing vice were Champaign's Mayor James D. Flynn, Chief of Police Roy Argo, State's Attorney Fred B. Hamill, former Sheriff Clarence W. Roth and four city commissioners...
...Venice, Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano met Alexander Cinca-Markovitch, Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia. Result: Yugoslavia agreed to "deepen the faithful collaboration" with Germany and Italy, will probably soon join the Rome-Berlin -Tokyo -Budapest anti - Comintern Pact. A former Little Entente ally of France and signer of the Balkan Pact, Yugoslavia became last week a dead loss to the "Peace Front" of Britain and France...
...from the Chancellery to the Lustgarten on his way to view a military birthday parade in his honor, 2,000,000 heils greeted him. On the new Via Triumphalis, the broad East-West "axis" which Herr Hitler himself ordered cut through the heart of a fast rebuilding capital, the former corporal acted for all the world like an emperor. He wore his usual simple brown Nazi uniform, but on the cap, below a spread eagle, were gilded oak leaves encasing a swastika-the mark of the supreme military commander he is. He sat on a gilded thronelike chair placed...
...British diplomats is her Ambassador to the U. S. Since 1930, Britain's representative at Washington has been Sir Ronald Lindsay, a legate of long experience in Russia. Persia, France, Egypt, Turkey, Germany. His two marriages were with U. S. women: first to Martha Cameron, daughter of former Pennsylvania Senator J. Donald Cameron, who died in 1918, next to Elizabeth Sherman, daughter of the late Colgate Hoyt of New York...
...into the Army and Navy. One is an educator (Will Spens, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge), one a big businessman (John Boot, Lord Trent, head of the great Boots drugstore chain), one a diplomat (Sir Auckland Geddes, Ambassador to Washington, 1920-24), one a labor specialist (Harold Butler, former Director of the International Labor Office, Geneva). Five have had long Government experience, six saw active War duty. One makes the paper for English bank notes. One has an inferiority complex. One is stone-deaf, uses a mechanical ear and when seated by some one he dislikes, shuts...