Word: newsom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Killed in Action. Heinrich von Weizsacker, son of Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, Secretary of State in the German Foreign Ministry, in Poland; Captain Antoni Janusz, 42, winner last year of the James Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, in Poland; Dr. Florence Newsom, British Red Cross worker, in Poland, when her plane was shot down; Prince Oskar of Prussia, 24, Lieutenant of the 51st German Infantry Regiment, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II, one of eight Princes of the ex-royal family in active service,*"while leading an attack by his company" in Poland...
...custom at Rotary conventions, Peace, Good Will, Friendship were the words most frequently used in speeches and messages. Thus, President Hoover: ". . . Renewed evidence of the spirit of international goodwill which is so significant a development of our times. . . .'' M. Eugene Newsom, retiring Rotary president: "Ideals may be difficult to define, but friendship ultimately provides its own interpretation. Remarkable it is that the close of a quarter of a century finds us willing to build Rotary's increasing purpose upon that word 'friendship'. . . .'' Sir Henry: "Religious contentions, the predatory desires of monarchs, the thirst...