Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pirow's trip turned out to be a flop. When the Jewish pogroms flared up, German stock in Britain fell to zero, and all thought of giving Germany anything now had to be dropped. Mr. Pirow direly predicted: "Unless there is a complete change of outlook within a month or two the international tension will reach the breaking point during spring of next year...
Three days of rain and bird-walking weather last week gave the battered seaboard towns of Loyalist Spain their first respite in three weeks from incessant, systematic bombings by Insurgent Generalissimo Franco's airplanes. Late last month, infuriated by the refusal of Britain and France to grant him belligerent rights. Franco listed 100 Loyalist towns and 58 villages as "legitimate objectives." announced that they would be ceaselessly bombed in ''retaliation." A fleet of Italian Savoia and German Junkers bombing planes, based at Majorca, was ordered to blast the towns in shifts. At last reports they had dumped...
...lifted his father's picture from the wall, bowed, left the room. Last week there was no longer a place for able Jan in the diplomatic service. On January 1 he will move out of the Legation in Grosvenor Place, has no other plan than a projected two-month trip...
...Last month the name of Czechoslovakia was officially changed to Czecho-Slovakia. This week the hyphenation was made significant when the autonomous Slovak Government took occasion to discharge Czech (and Jewish) professors and officials in the Slovak area. "Slovakia for the Slovaks," was the slogan of a campaign which marked another big fissure in the disintegration of the State of Eduard Benes and Thomas Masaryk pulled but could not hold together...
...Last month, while checking up on inventory insurance, Treasurer Thompson found that the insurance did not cover crude drug inventories. Dr. Coster told him the insurance was handled by W. W. Smith & Co., the company's Montreal agent. Mr. Thompson found several Dun & Bradstreet reports in the company files showing W. W. Smith to be a worldwide trading company with assets of between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000. Suspicious Mr. Thompson went to Dun & Bradstreet and was told the reports were forgeries. Next Mr. Thompson began checking up on W. W. Smith and on another Montreal firm...