Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view, the disadvantage of the tutoring schools is that, while certain people may now earn large sums by tutoring the large majority of those who would and could tutor are unable to get any work at all. The appointments in the schools are often made on the basis of friendship rather than merit. By having more legitimate private tutoring, and less group reviews, many more students would be given needed employment...
...Harvard has come Brazil's first appeal for intellectual friendship. Through its consul in Boston, it has offered to establish an institute for the study of Brazilian art, literature, music and Portugese. The professors and the library will be supplied from abroad, but the University will have complete control of administration...
...Ambassador has had many narrow escapes, the closest being in the 1934 Nazi purge, when only President von Hindenburg's protection and friendship saved him from assassination. Friends and associates have not been so lucky. His political supporters were wiped out in the purge and the body of the man who was his secretary in Austria was found floating in the Danube two months after Anschluss...
...toward friendly peoples with an attitude of friendship; against hostile peoples we shall display a clear, decisive and resolute attitude of hostility. . . . The world must know that we shall go straight ahead tomorrow, as we did yesterday and as we always shall...
ROME--Official communiques announced today that Premier Benito Mussolini had conferred with Gen. Gaetone Gambara on a date for withdrawal of Italian troops from Spain and that Italy had given assurances of friendship to Greece --thus attacking the two principal obstacles to Anglo-Italian friendship...