Word: fors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many Dutch villages have their St. Nicholases and Black Peters, generally two popular local characters who know all the children. By prearrangement with parents, they leave toys for good children or threaten to leave a birch switch for bad as they go from house to house. Especially naughty moppets are...
This year Netherlands troops guarding the frontier with Germany were visited on St. Nicholas Day by the mitered Saint, bearing aloft his bishop's crook and preceded by capering Peter, who brought sugar cakes for the soldiers. Dutch cameramen snapped St. Nicholas peering through field glasses at cruising bombers...
Main points: 1) currencies will be permanently stabilized at the going rate of 176½ francs to the pound; 2) thus France can continue to buy commodities in the sterling area with francs at a reasonable rate, Britain can supply her expeditionary force in France with pounds; 3) neither country...
¶ Allied labor also banded. In the elegant Paris headquarters of Confederation Generale du Travail, C. G. T.'s Secretary General Leon Jouhaux played host to Sir Walter Citrine, since 1926 Secretary General of the British Trades Union Congress, in the first of a series of monthly conferences on...
In September 1934 the U. S. S. R., long considered an outcast by other powers, was voted into membership of the League of Nations, and its delegate and Foreign Commissar, Maxim Litvinoff, was duly seated. At that time, and later, the Geneva platform was used as an international sounding board...