Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ramon Serrano Suner went on to Berchtesgaden for his third visit to Big Boss Hitler within two months. Italy's Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano met him at Salzburg. Day earlier Bulgaria's Tsar Boris III secretly visited the Fuhrer in Berlin. With so much diplomatic activity, and with the air war over Britain and the sea war in the Atlantic and Mediterranean gaining fury, the Second World War moved inexorably toward a new and greater climax...
Engaged. Eileen S. S. Gillespie, 24, who six years ago without explanation broke her engagement to marry John Jacob Astor III; and John Jermain Slocum, 26, a literary agent, direct descendant of Miles Standish; in Manhattan...
...Harry Foulds was haled before the magistrates of Chatham, Kent, charged with theft from the Crown of a pistol, ammunition and a helmet which he had taken from a bailed-out German airman. Defense Counsel Gerald Thesinger based his case on Rex v. Broom, in the reign of William III, which was based in turn on a case tried during the reign of Henry VIII. These cases upheld the right of any British subject to retain any property he may be able to seize from "the King's enemy." "Therefore," argued Thesinger, "the property was never vested...
...White House, day after Lieut. Ickes launched his attack, the President himself got into an argument with a reporter (Scripps-Howard's grey little Fred Perkins) who wanted to know whether he really meant what he had said at Cleveland last fortnight about retiring after Term III.* Mr. Roosevelt's Dutch temper flared. Newsman Perkins ought to go back to grade school, said he, and learn English...
...eternal cycle of budding, maturing, and deteriorating; year in, year out, their eyes and senses noted the uniformity of change." These peasants "always knew the names of the bishop and the ruling Pope, but rarely that of the temporal ruler." With deep misgivings they watched the war against Napoleon III, Bismarck's new Empire, the ascendancy of Protestant Prussia over Catholic Bavaria, the visiting officers and nobles who profaned rustic Masses by singing Deutschland über alles before the Te Deum...