Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...population gain of only 668,519. Furthermore, war casualties, which are too holy to be reduced to statistics, were not included in the death total. The War Office has announced war deaths as 60,000; actually they are probably three times that. The actual net gain was perhaps as low...
...China was becoming a unified nation for the first time in its 5,000-year history. A young General named Chiang Kaishek, though still hardly more than an ambitious warlord, was beginning to make his people realize that yellow skin was not necessarily synonymous with low estate. The Russians, to promote world revolution, were also urging a China for Chinese. The country burst into fire from within, like a haystack with...
...Dutch constitutional government there have been only 33 Cabinets. No. 1 Dutch Cabinet maker is old Dr. Hendrikus Colijn. Last week the onetime Dutch "strong man" was sadly planning a round-the-world trip to forget that the last of his five had set the all-time Dutch low by lasting exactly two days and seven hours. Last June Calvinist Dr. Colijn was compelled to resign when his old-fashioned financial and social policies split the coalition between his Anti-Revolutionary Party and the progressive Catholics. After a month of Cabinet stasis Queen Wilhelmina's Favorite was back again...
...honorary citizen of the town. Last summer Toscanini saluted another musician who once lived on Lake Lucerne. In Richard Wagner's garden, Toscanini "reconstructed" the first performance of the Siegfried Idyll, which was a serenade to Wagner's mistress and wife-to-be, Cosima von Bülow...
...wisely willed his trustees great latitude in investment, Herbert Hoover and friends got permission to revise their portfolio. Meanwhile, many another trustee, bound by strict fiduciary laws and without latitude to switch to common stocks, faced an immediate menace: New Deal fiscal policy has reduced interest rates so low that with every refinancing the dollar yield of securities gets closer to the vanishing point...