Word: frees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the others. They stared and made loud comments about fellow passengers, they were rude and demanding with the stewards, they made the decks and public rooms as untidy and dirty as I have never seen them on a German boat, were noisy during concerts and made as free with others' deck chairs and rugs as with their own. It may sound petty, but over a week of constant bad manners gets on your nerves...
Last week a jury, all but one of whom were parents, tried Louis Greenfield. Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz staged the defense, free of charge, but his renowned theatrical talents were scarcely needed. Euthanasia defendants are seldom convicted. Father Greenfield's story made the jurors sob. He said...
Thus commented Frederick the Great of Prussia, who himself was a leading carver in the 18th-Century first partition of Poland. His words have not been lost on a 20th-century admirer, Adolf Hitler, who has lately demanded for Germany the Free City of Danzig, at the Vistula's mouth. Unfortunately for Herr Hitler, Poland's present rulers can also read and they showed last week in many ways that they too appreciated Frederick's maxim...
...dread Nazi Gestapo in two rooms near that of Kurt von Schuschnigg, last Chancellor of Austria, on the top floor of Vienna's Hotel Metropole. Aged by a year's close confinement, the once dapper Baron last week stepped out of a plane in Zurich, Switzerland, a free man again, liberated for an unknown ransom...
...made their extensive exploitation possible. Argentina agreed to permit transportation of Bolivian oil across her territory provided the expropriated fields were not returned to private owners. Paraguay agreed to give Bolivia: 1) a 325-ft. pipeline right-of-way across the Chaco battlefields to the Paraguay River; 2) two free zones for a refinery and a shipping point; 3) a 3O-year monopoly to supply Paraguayan oil requirements; 4) freedom from taxes and levies on shipments from the Bolivian refinery. Since Paraguay uses little oil, main purpose of the treaty was to provide Bolivia with an export outlet...