Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...square-toed German boot drew back for the kick fortnight ago when Dictator Hitler sent his light cruiser Leipzig steaming into the harbor of the Free City of Danzig. Going ashore, the Leipzig's captain committed a flagrant diplomatic breach by paying courtesy calls upon all Danzig officials except the highest, His Excellency Sean Lester, League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig. To point up this insult young Albert Forster, supple-muscled leader of the Danzig Nazi Party, declared next day in his Nazi news-organ that the adjective which best describes both the League of Nations...
Last week mice-breeding Biologist Clarence Cook Little of Bar Harbor, Me., published in the American Medical Association Journal facts about the inheritance of cancer which mice taught him. Fundamentally, they proved that the tendency to cancer is inherited, just as are brown eyes or curly hair. Cancer can be bred out of a family by marriages into noncancerous families...
Paris department stores finally reopened to do boom business this week after an all-night arbitration conference. In Marseille 4,000 sailors suddenly "folded arms" on French merchant ships in the harbor, sang Communist songs, defied their officers. Sporadic in Paris, Amiens and other French cities were the first Fascist outbursts, participants massing, marching, waving the French flag, shouting "Down with the Jew! Down with Moscow...
...Gloucester, Mass., Coast Guardsmen laboriously towed a dead and odorous 60-ton whale off Bass Rock Beach seven miles to sea, were chagrined that evening to see the whale in Gloucester Harbor, towed in again by a public-spirited yachtsman to remove a menace to navigation...
...cages hung from the ceiling. Utilitarian Geist's big play was a party on his suburban estate, where 20 acres were converted into a "Versailles Garden" with electric stars in the shrubs. Mr. Kent waited until summer, then gave not one but two balls simultaneously in Bar Harbor. One was on a yacht, the other on shore. Flower-decked launches carried the guests back & forth. Mr. Kent's daughters, Elizabeth and Virginia, are both married...