Word: make
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Angelo Michieli left his native Italian village, sailed to the U. S. to make a new home. His wife and infant son he had to leave behind until he had their passage money saved...
Politicians asked each other in whispers whether Bigelow could summon up enough referendum votes to make him a prospective candidate for Governor. Said his campaign director, Charles H. Hubbell: "The amendments will be approved at the polls and then the people of Ohio will elect as their Governor the man who conceived them...
...have often wondered why the Germans did not make greater efforts to reduce our strength in capital ships by destroyer or submarine attacks on our bases in those early days. They possessed, in comparison with the uses for which they were required, almost a superfluity of destroyers . . . and they could not have put them to a better use than in an attack on Scapa Flow during the early months of the 1914-15 winter.-The late Admiral Earl Jellicoe...
...Ministers reputedly advised President Kallio in secret: 1) to hand over to the Soviet Union certain small islands, near Leningrad; 2) to refuse to concede to the Soviet Union control of the large Aland Islands near Stockholm; 3) to resist Soviet pressure to enter a military alliance which would make Finland the vassal of Russia. This appeared to be the line taken when Finnish Foreign Minister Dr. Juho Paasikivi went back to Moscow this week for more talks about the "friendship pact." Meantime, however, the Finns prudently prepared to vote $95,000,000 in war credits...
...Devastating Consequences!" In international politics, Sweden has no wish nor much chance to make a grand slam. Her wealth and her small but efficiently equipped Army make her a national leader in the so-called Oslo Group (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, Finland, Belgium-Luxembourg Trade Union) which overlaps the so-called Northern Neutrals (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland). These groups pursue a ceaseless European activity for lowered customs barriers, mobilization of Europe's remaining moral forces against aggression, and until lately they were the energetic champions of the League of Nations, now admittedly defunct...