Word: frenches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taking shape, the Anglo-French peace pattern envisions that hereafter uneconomic duplication of production would cease, industrial specialization by nations would be encouraged, pertinent raw materials would be made available to all, and exploitation of new territories would be mainly carried out by economic organizations like the Suez Canal Co., in which investors of many States participate, instead of by smash-and-grab political tactics like the Italian war to bring "civilization" to Ethiopia...
...that way. Wilhelmina's forebears were a tough collection of fighting men. While they were still nominally under Spanish rule and before the British ran them off the sea (1654), they conquered an Empire in America and Asia in the same military manner as did the British and French. As late as 100 years ago Wilhelmina's grandfather, William II, fought a brief war to try to regain Belgium. The unification of the 29 German States into one big neighboring empire headed by Prussia made the practical Dutch finally realize that a nation of only a few million...
...February, a combined Army-Navy party braved a monsoon and heavy rain, landed on the China coast near Pakhoi, about 100 miles from the Indo-Chinese border, and thence drove inland toward the city of Nanning. This was their long-expected drive to cut the routes to China from French Indo-China and British Burma. It was a threat not only to China (which will be dry as a rootless tree if the routes are cut) but also to French and British and indirectly Dutch and U. S. interests in the Far East...
...Paris, Vienna-born Composer Oscar Straus, 69 (The Chocolate Soldier), was granted final French citizenship. In London, Rogers S. Lament, Manhattan lawyer, distant relative of Banker Thomas William Lament, took the oath of allegiance to King George VI, began training as an artillery cadet. In a Ukrainian city, Ruth Marie Rubens, 31, Philadelphia woman who went to Russia in 1937 on a forged passport, became U.S.S.R. Citizeness Ruth Friederichnova Boerger. In Manhattan, Elisabeth Rethberg, Metropolitan Opera soprano, received her final papers for U. S. citizenship...
...Derived from the French "oui," the German...