Word: mistrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote cast against M. Quesnay was Germany's (caster: Dr. Hans Luther, mild successor to brusque Dr. Hjalmar Schacht as President of the Reichsbank). In the first place Germany does not want a Frenchman managing the B. I. S.; in the second place German financiers particularly mistrust a "young man," have often muttered objections against the youth of Seymour Parker Gilbert, 37, protégé of Owen D. Young as agent general of reparations...
Heroine Erne Gallows is an orphaned Scotch girl, strong, passionate, beautiful. From her sailor father she inherits a reckless temper, an honest eye. The villagers mistrust her independence; they get drunk at her wedding but think her husband a queer, weak sort of man for her to pick. They are enlightened and glad when she is pregnant before her time. Her lover comes to the fair; there is a brawl, her husband is killed. Effie marries the schoolteacher, who has always loved her; a few months later her child is born, but it is weakly, and soon dies. Then...