Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officials may come and go with alarming frequency in most Government offices of the U. S. S. R., but not in the Soviet Foreign Commissariat. Amid all the shifts, purges and disappearances of Soviet officials, the Foreign Commissariat's topmost personnel has remained so constant that in 21 years since the proletarian revolution Soviet Russia has had only two Foreign Commissars: Georgy Vasilievich Chicherin, from 1918 to 1930 and Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, his successor...
...suddenly abolished the long practice of censoring newsmen's outgoing despatches. When Adolf Hitler wants to say something really important he convenes his Reichstag. Foreign correspondents last week wondered whether Comrade Stalin was not taking a leaf from the Hitler notebook when there was summoned to meet on May 25 the U.S.S.R. Parliament, the All-Union Congress of Soviets. Last time the Congress met was last August during the fighting between Japan and the Soviet Union at Changkufeng...
Forty thousand people crowded Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd.'s historic shipyard at Birkenhead. Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, only sister of the Duke of Windsor, said, "I name this ship Prince of Wales. May God guide her and guard and keep all who sail in her." Robert Johnson, head of Cammell Laird, was less restrained: "If I were in Chancellor Hitler's shoes and heard of the wonderful speed at which we can turn out our ships, I think I'd turn on my axis...
Knowing this, Prime Minister Eamon de Valera of Eire was able to get tough with Britain last week over the project of conscripting Irishmen for the British Army in the six counties of Northern Ireland (TIME, May 8). He warned: "We claim the whole of Ireland as national territory, and conscription of Irish in that portion of the country [Northern Ireland] we will regard as an act of aggression...
...Currick and Evans ($1.50). *Seldom used by lawyers is the term illegitimacy in adoption. A child born out of wedlock belongs to its mother, may legally bear her name and inherit her property...