Word: frees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis for the [Anglo-German] naval treaty has been removed. I have therefore resolved to send today a communication to this effect to the British Government . . . . As regards German-Polish relations . . . some months ago I made a concrete offer to the Polish Government: 1) Danzig returns as a free state into . . . the German Reich; 2) Germany receives a route through the Corridor. . . . The Polish Government has rejected my one and only offer. . . . Therefore I look upon the agreement which Marshal Pilsudski and I at one time concluded as . . . no longer in existence...
...Warsaw Foreign Minister Josef Beck said to his Parliament: "I hear demands for annexation of Danzig. . . . I get no reply to our proposal ... of a common guarantee of the existence and rights of the Free City. . .. We have given to the German Reich all railway facilities, we have allowed its citizens to travel without customs or passport formalities from the Reich to East Prussia. . . . But we have . . . no grounds whatever for restricting our sovereignty on our own territory. . . . We in Poland do not know the conception of peace at any price...
Friday, two days before their country declared war on Germany, they were ready. In the grey morning they marched to school, gathered for final instructions. Not knowing where he was going (each school was to take the first free train out), each child had a postcard, to be sent home when he arrived at his billet. On his clothes was sewn his name and address. A Mr. Brown's four children, aged 4 to 11, marched with their names printed in big letters on their backs. From London and 28 other cities, all through last weekend and this week...
...Chairman Jerome Frank's suggestion for a brokerage bank for customers' cash and free securities, a special Stock Exchange Board turned thumbs down. Its alternative: a 14-point program for completion of the Exchange's extensive self-policing policy...
...economic bigwigs were asked to confer, formulate a "program of action." They nibbled like scared mice at the big cheese of distribution, recommended: strict accuracy in labeling and advertising, consumer education, commodity research, careful cost analysis of distribution industries. To meet increasingly costly conveniences offered by retailers (credit, free delivery, Smith girls behind the counter, swank salesrooms, return privileges), they suggested "differential pricing," by which an article would have several prices, according to the number of these conveniences a consumer wanted to pay for. Judged undesirable: monopoly, legislative attacks on chain stores, and State legislation discriminating against out-of-State...