Word: jans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Office-holding Washingtonians began to receive their annual invitations to the Jackson Day dinner, set for next Jan. 8, grumbled their usual grumbles at the price ($100), but decided to be there in case Guest-of-Honor Franklin Roosevelt took that occasion for a third-term pronouncement...
...Belgium the southern portions of Zeeland and Limburg provinces, which lie next to Belgium. This was averted not only by the Queen's dramatic tour of these provinces but also by the presence in Versailles of two South African statesmen of Boer origin, Generals Colin Graham Botha and Jan Christiaan Smuts. They remembered that it was Wilhelmina who in 1900 defied the British by sending a Dutch warship to pick up Boer Leader Paul Kruger and bring him to safety in Europe...
Czech undergraduates at historic Prague University were roused to fury last week as death came to their 22-year-old political martyr, Medical Student Jan Opletal. On Oct. 28 he went out to celebrate Czechoslovak "Independence Day" and was brought home with six revolver bullets in his body. Shouting "Long Live Freedom!" and "Away With the Murderers!" his mourners marched with torchlights to Vinohradsky Square...
...Owen D. Young puffed a pipe. Nobody was taken by surprise. The previous evening they had all had a quiet evening talking about it at the Metropolitan Club: after serving 17 years together, and reaching G.E.'s retirement age of 65, Swope and Young wished to retire on Jan. 1. The directors then elected a new president and chairman (both of whom had, the evening before, been congratulated on their forthcoming election), voted a 65? dividend, and adjourned...
...last week's end sales since Jan. 1 on the New York Stock Exchange averaged only 896,517 shares a day compared to 983,577 shares in dull 1938. And the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrials, which stood at 155.92 when the third-quarter earnings reports began to hit the financial pages, hovered around 151-about the non-boom level...