Word: great
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decide whether force is to be the sole arbiter in international affairs ; whether international instruments solemnly and freely entered into are to be modified, not by negotiation, but by mere unilateral repudiation; whether there is to be any faith in future in written contracts; whether the fate of a great nation and the peace of the world is to rest in the future in the hands of one man; whether small nations are to have any rights against the pretentions of States more powerful than themselves ; in a word, whether government of the people, by the people, for the people...
...services, and Beach has signed with Transradio Press for five years. Little Transradio (with only 50-odd U. S. newspaper clients, compared with U. P.'s 1,100, and A. P.'s 1,360) is at best a stopgap, may explain why in the midst of a great war the News concentrates on local affairs. But it will give Clark Beach some kind of national and foreign coverage in case he cannot get what he wants from...
...papers were once more on sale at London newsstands. But wartime regulations and wartime inflation had sent prices soaring. A Sunday edition that cost 10? in Manhattan sold in London for as much as 2/6 (about 50? at current exchange rates). Reason: no alien periodical could enter Great Britain without special permission from the War Office, except in single copies through the mail. And the increase in postage that newsstands had to pay was aggravated by the rising price of the dollar...
...Great, retired Symphonist Karl Muck, wartime conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who was locked up as an enemy alien during World War I, on his 80th birthday in Berlin received from Adolf Hitler the Plaque of the German Eagle...
...Gerald L. Brockhurst (Great Britain), Hipolito Hidalgo de Caviedes (Spain), Edward Hopper and Eugene Speicher...