Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Board of regents of the University of Wisconsin has made a commendable move toward international friendship in restoring to Germans and German-Americans the honorary degrees taken from them during the hysteria of the World...
...days were unreal, manufactured in the interests of political and economic disputes. As we come to look upon our former enemies as fellow human beings, not boasts, we appreciate all the more their character and achievements. We are bound to them in a spirit of mutual respect and international friendship. The restoration of degrees to their rightful owners by the University of Wisconsin is a step in the right direction. We are only sorry that they were taken away during the war. Daily Illini...
Timoor Tash, Grand Vizier of Persia's Riza Shah Pahlavi, making a "visit of courtesy and friendship" to Soviet Russia, was entertained by his hosts at the trotting races in the Moscow hippodrome. Surrounded by fur-hatted Russian officers and highest diplomats, the so-called "brains of the Persian State" sat protected from the bitter cold in a glass-sided box while the rubber-tired sulkies skimmed around the track in the light of electroliers and a crescent moon. At Timoor Tash's side, talking of "Asia for the Asiatics," sat General Budenny who, like the Grand Vizier...
...that goal may reasonably be doubted, for M. Briand was first of all a Frenchman. He seemed at times, with the intense nationalism of his race, ready to discard his great conception to preserve the temporary dominance of France. His attitude to Germany was a curious oscillation between friendship and an involuntary suspicion. But it must be remembered that he had always to account for the traditional French distrust of German motives. And he was bitterly attacked by a press which is possibly the most narrowly nationalistic in the world...
Money, glory and friendship are trying bedfellows. Money and glory are always heavily involved in transoceanic airplane flights. Few observers were greatly surprised last week to learn that the friendship of Hugh Herndon Jr. and Clyde Pangborn, like that of many another flying team, was no more...