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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lawyer, Robert M. Codd Jr. of Buffalo, explained that the whole proceeding against him was illegal. Since 1893 New York has had a law which says: ". . . no person shall maintain an action on a contract against any Indian of the . . . Seneca Nation . . . and every person who prosecutes such an action shall be liable to treble costs to the party aggrieved...
...Instead, French Premier Edouard Daladier flew twice to London. Last week amends were about to be made. The Prime Minister & Mrs. Chamberlain, accompanied by the Foreign Secretary & Lady Halifax, are to spend November 23-25 in Paris. Under the outward show of a "purely social visit," Mr. Chamberlain and M. Daladier will try to advance toward "general European appeasement" from the stage reached at Munich...
...Downing Street it was said that Mr. Chamberlain will not take to Paris any retinue of British Foreign Office experts. Experts of the French Foreign Office expected to be left to twirl their thumbs by M. Daladier. To a great extent Munich was the product of "personal diplomacy" conducted by the Big Four- this being European for U. S. "shirtsleeve diplomacy." Shoved into the background last week, British and French experts, many of whom are "pipe lines" to favorite correspondents, hinted that Chamberlain and Daladier would probably discuss...
...Marchandeau measures gave evidence of being broadly unpopular, so last week Premier Daladier abruptly threw the whole program out. He invited Paul Marchandeau to hand the Ministry of Finance over to Paul Reynaud and take M. Reynaud's Ministry of Justice. This was quickly done with no Cabinet crisis. After the swap new Finance Minister Reynaud announced he would not answer his telephone for five days, promised by then to have drawn up a new financial program. This was expected to be "orthodox," that is, not to crack down on private capital or private initiative, but to continue "democratic...
...discovered about 1482 by a Portuguese, Dioga Cào, but for three centuries little colonization was done. In the middle 19th Century intrepid British explorers pushed into the interior and in 1873 famed Explorer David Livingstone died while charting the river's headwaters. Equally famed H. M. Stanley, sent to rescue Livingstone, remained to become the first white man to journey down the Congo...