Word: iii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that she dreads the formation of an Austro-German Zollverein or "customs union," which was precisely what the two Teutons proposed last week. To bar the possibility of Anschluss or Zollverein, Frenchmen inserted in the Treaty of St. Germain, which beaten Austria signed in 1919, this clause (Part III, Article...
J.D.M. Ford '94, Smith professor of the French and Spanish languages in Harvard, has collected and edited the correspondence of King John III of Portugal, which has been published under the title of "Letters of John III of Portugal". As only twenty three of the letters have been published before, the present volume offers fresh material of value to the historian as well as the lay reader. The letters are in the original Portuguese but a modern Portuguese glossary is provided of some of the more archaic forms...
...brings forth at the same time a most ominous fact. Men no longer control their destinies, instead they are at the mercy of events. Social, political, and economic forces are so complex that in themselves they defy solution. Bismarck could unify and control Germany by outwitting Napoleon III, but no man today can lay out a course for himself and hope to outwit circumstance. To elaborate this point the author cites the case of Mussolini in Italy. His contention is that if Il Duce had lived in the last century his tremendous ability coupled with the country's military strength...
...recluse in the ugly old red-brick house (last appraised at $6,000) on the corner (last appraised at $3,684,000). Friends said her seclusion was voluntary, her life happy. She and her sisters Augusta, Josephine, Mary, Georgiana were dominated, kept from marrying by Brother John Gottlieb Wendel III. Rebecca, a sixth sister, eluded his tyranny, married Professor Luther A. Swope. But when Professor Swope died she returned to hermitage with her sisters. Last year she died (TIME, Aug. 4) and her will left most of the fortune, after Sister Ella's death, to charities and religious bodies...
Ella Wendel kept a succession of French poodles, each named Tobey, her companions in the old house that had (until lately) no telephone, no electricity. Twenty-five years ago John Gottlieb Wendel III, in refusing as always to sell the Wendel corner, explained it was because the contemporary Tobey had to have a place to run in. The present Tobey has his own brass bed, his own specially constructed table alongside Miss Wendel's. When this Tobey dies he will be buried with his predecessors in the Wendel dog-graveyard at Irvington-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. (the Wendel summer...