Word: frenches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf: "Oh, I'm not particular as to size, so long as I'm bigger than the British Empire and the French Empire and the Dutch Empire and Belgium and the Balkans all rolled into one. You see, 90,000,000 people...
...substance to much wishful thinking that Germany was near an internal revolution. In London, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said that the Allies were sitting pretty because: 1) the repeal of the U. S. embargo opened to the Allies the "greatest storehouse of supplies in the world"; 2) The British-French pact with Turkey was a "powerful instrument for peace in southeastern Europe"; 3) the German-Soviet pact, while greatly benefiting Soviet Russia, had "brought only humiliation and loss for Germany." The Prime Minister gloated: "The position of the Allies has, as the weeks have gone by, rather strengthened than deteriorated...
...last ten years dynamic Amanullah has played about the Lido and the French Riviera, although at home he has never been completely forgotten. Last week from India there came belated confirmation that Amanullah was still a potent force on India's Northwest Frontier. Two months ago, it was learned, 3,000 followers of Amanullah gathered in India, crossed the Afghan border near the Khyber Pass and started a march up to Kabul. King Mohammed Zahir Shah is accepted as a true-blue friend of the British, however, and when the British Raj in India threatened to come...
...founded the paper in 1869. (Argentina's oldest newspaper is the English-language Buenos Aires Standard, founded 1861.) Now past 65, childless Don Ezequiel leaves the active management of La Prensa to a nephew, Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz. Until this year Don Ezequiel spent his winters at a French estate near Biarritz. For the sake of his diet he always carried with him a cow, sacrificed her as his ship entered the Rio de la Plata because of Argentina's strict quarantine against imported cattle...
Because Irish, French and English military teams, old favorites with the fans, had a previous engagement this year (thus narrowing the international field to Mexican, Chilean, U. S. cavalrymen), the twelve principal civilian events for hunters and jumpers* received more than customary attention during the eight days of the show. Because 75% of the hunters and jumpers exhibited at U. S. horse shows nowadays are ridden by women, the spotlight focused on the jumping Jills...