Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attitude toward the Czech people was never anything else than that of guardian of the unilateral national and Reich interest, combined with respect for the Czech people...
...years 4,000,000 Roman Catholic Croats in the North have done their best to sabotage the Government run largely in the interest of the 6,500,000 Greek Orthodox and Moslem Serbs in the South. Croats and Serbs have never got along well together. Besides their religious differences, the Croats consider the Serbs uncultured barbarians. They complain that their old agreements with the Serbs for self-government, fair taxation and civil liberties were abrogated by a dictatorial Serb Government. Their list of grievances - suppression, little education, commercial exploitation - is long. They have loudly demanded autonomy; and, agitating...
Main U. S. interest in Bolivia is still tin. The U. S. imports about 45% of the world's tin, has no mines in her own boundaries, a small one in Alaska. Basic war material, indispensable for the manufacture of bearings, tin travels far to reach its biggest market. There are big smelters in the Malay Peninsula, in The Netherlands and Great Britain, but the small smelters of the U. S. refine only a minute proportion, and Bolivian tin reaches the U. S. after a trip to Britain. Facing a possible war shortage, Bolivian tin has figured largely...
...director for their music school, Eastman's executives in 1924 picked a boyish, bearded, 28-year-old Nebraskan named Howard Hanson. Director Hanson's main interest was composition, and it was not long before he had turned Eastman's music school into a gigantic incubator for young U. S. composers. For them Director Hanson provided classes in counterpoint, a symphony orchestra, and even a ballet company to play their works. He installed a recording system, made phonograph records of students' lopsided sonatas and sway-backed symphonies, so that they could study their faults over & over again...
...president, Ernest Tener Weir, still gloomily sitting out Roosevelt, has meanwhile refunded $65,000,000 worth of debt to save half a million a year by lower interest rates. Saving every cent he could, getting the largest possible slice of business to be had, Weir last week denied that National is about to build another plant. Said he: "We won't invest in the Chicago area till the country gets back on its feet." Thus temporarily sparing Big Steel the headache of stiff competition in another market, E. T. Weir went off to Bermuda...