Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allied Governments and inserted into the draft of the final peace treaty. The German delegation to the Paris peace conference delivered a substantiated contradiction against that theory on May 29, 1919, duly received by the Allied and Associate Governments and never revoked. Therefore, when the unamended draft was signed June 28, 1919. these Governments were fully conscious of the fact that the German Government held the reverse opinion toward the so-called "war guilt." As a matter of course, no signature obtained by violence from a contracting party can pretend to mean "admittance...
Italo Balbo was born of prosperous parents June 6, 1896 in the ancient city of Ferrara. A hothead from the first, Italo enlisted at only 19 to fight for Italy during the World War, soon collared medals for "conspicuous valor." When Gabriele d'Annunzio defied the Peace Conference and President Wilson with his quixotic move to seize Fiume and make it Italian, one of the practical young fighters who enabled the poet to succeed in his at first foolhardy, then brilliant coup was Balbo...
These five men have two main functions: 1) to terminate by June 30 the 44 old ocean mail contracts costing the Post Office $26,500,000 this year, replace them with a direct subsidy large enough in each case to put a U. S. ship operator on equal footing with his foreign competitors; 2) to stimulate the building of new U. S. ships by giving subsidies up to 50% of a vessel's cost to equalize the high price of shipbuilding in the U. S. with the low price abroad. Other tasks include getting rid of the rusting Wartime...
...kidnapper of Nancy Steele, he fits perfectly into a role which might easily have been mishandled by a less capable actor. Excellent acting is also contributed by Peter Lorre in a typical snake-in-the-grass part, by Walter Connolly as the father of the kidnapped girl, and by June Lang as Nancy Steele...
Having just recovered from the election of a new president, Yale University last week heard that it would have to start looking for a new dean. Clarence Whittlesey ("Clare") Mendell, 53, unexpectedly announced that he would retire with President James Rowland Angell in June. Yaleman Mendell, who succeeded famed, crusty Frederick Scheetz Jones in 1927 and has since done a notable job in modernizing Yale's course requirements and in adjusting New Haven life to Repeal, explained that he wanted to get back to his other Yale work as Dunham Professor of Latin Language & Literature and master of Branford...