Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aboard the S. S. President Coolidge when it cleared the Golden Gate for Manila last week were 75 guests of the U. S. Government. They were Filipinos taking their next-to-last chance to go home at U. S. expense. Already 1,900 had taken a free ride home since the Filipino Repatriation Act was passed in the summer of 1935. Just one more Filipino repatriation party is to be given before December 31, when the Act expires...
...Assembly floor to oppose a pro-Nazi deputy's motion that South Africa refuse to support Britain if war comes. 'T am still very confident that there will be no war," said the Premier. "No country has the right to drag in South Africa, but all free nations have certain obligations, and these will be faithfully carried...
Meanwhile, Sudetens who had fled to Germany and organized a Freikorps ("Free Corps") appeared in Mufti, wearing Freikorps armbands and supplied with light German weapons of every sort, including hand grenades and machine guns, to wage localized warfare upon Czechoslovak towns and customs houses all along the Sudeten frontier. At As, the birthplace of No. 1 Sudeten Nazi Konrad Henlein, Czech gendarmes who fortnight ago described themselves as "Sons of Death'' were driven out with heavy casualties. The town of As is the fingernail of a tiny finger of Czechoslovakia extending 18 miles into Germany, and Sudetens...
...They laugh at U. S. attempts to play tangos, but are interested in every thing President Roosevelt has to say, while baffled by reports of Presidential fishing trips. Their own commercial radio stations give them entertainment which is almost 100% sponsored, do not pretend to any interest in furnishing free entertainment education. Advertisements are liberally inserted between musical numbers, for a higher fee between the announcement of a piece of music and its performance. South American airtime is sold not so much by hours, as by minutes, seconds. Therefore, when Latin American radio stations give anything away free, the gifts...
...Philosophy at the College of the City of New York, and author of the best selling books "Influencing Human Behavior" (1925), "About Ourselves" (1927), and "A Guide to Civilized Leisure" (1934), and Charles S. Bolster, of Cambridge, president of the new Center. While admission to this convocation is free, tickets should be secured in advance from the office in Brattle Hall...