Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with Great Britain in opposition to Soviet Russia. Thus U. S. Representative Hugh Simons Gibson followed Lord Cushendun with a speech in which he went even further toward condemning the Soviet proposal and roundly advised that the Commission waste no more time upon it. Meanwhile the German and Turkish representatives had taken the stand that they approved the Soviet proposal "in principle"; but all the Latin nations showed themselves unalterably opposed. As a result, the Commission prepared to put the. Soviet draft convention again into storage by delaying any further consideration which may be accorded it to a future session...
Concessions. The three most significant concessions thus far granted to foreign interests in Soviet Russia are, say Miss Thompson & Mr. Lee, 1) The Mologoles concessions granted to a German syndicate of which onetime German Chancellor Wirth was the head; 2) The Caucasian manganese concessions let to W. A. Harriman and associates of Manhattan; and 3) the Lena Goldfields concession, granted to Britons. Generally speaking, Mr. Lee appears to mistrust the good faith of the Soviet Government in connection with the recently defunct Mologoles concessions and the Harriman scheme which is now going forward under a completely revised contract "far more...
...spreading God's word. This fact especially is satisfying to Chairman Mott, a man whose energetic character resembles some laboratory apparatus of light and sensitive leaves, trembling with the great force an exterior electricity has communicated to them. On the night of the first gathering, in the German Sanatorium on the Mount of Olives, Dr. Mott looked about him with joy that burned in his eyes like fire. The game of going to Jerusalem was over now, and there was great work to be done. What this work was, he proceeded briefly to explain...
Henry Hentz & Co. reported that this transaction was but typical of other German orders similarly placed, executed and confirmed by telephone in recent weeks. Observers marveled as much at the German enterprise as at the rapid communication. During last fortnight's furor on the New York Stock Exchange, a busy floor man was asked by his office for a quotation on General Electric. "What the-!" he roared. "I can't be bothered for quotations at a time like this!" "But Berlin wants to know. They're holding the wire." Abashed, the floorman dove into the nearest drift...
...taken French 1, French 2, or German 1a, all deemed sufficient for a reading knowledge, knows that passing these courses may mean almost anything but a knowledge of French or German. It may mean a ready ability to use trots, to remember passages read over by some one else, to memorize certain books laboriously translated; but only incidentally will it mean a facility in reading French or German. Scarcely, if at all, better are the special language examinations. A little luck in hitting a passage seen somewhere before, a knack of guessing at words and construction under the pressure...