Word: nones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From 1915 to 1927, declared Mr. Hull, Mexico seized 161 "moderate sized" properties of U. S. citizens. "Not a single claim has been adjusted and none has been paid...
Since 1927 additional properties, "chiefly farms of a moderate size," with a total claimed value of $10,132,388, have been taken by Mexico. "This figure does not include the large land grants frequently mentioned in the press." None of these seizures has yet been paid for. "Certainly on the basis of the record above stated, the United States Government cannot be accused of being unreasonable or impatient...
Fortunately the confused reports in high European quarters had certain common denominators: 1) Everyone agreed that Chancellor Hitler, by means of an emissary, had assured Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that Germany wants a "peaceful solution" of the Czechoslovak Question, not a war. 2) None doubted that in Paris the British had urged the French to help induce Prague to make to the Sudeten Germans the utmost concessions likely to avert war, short of destroying the sovereignty of Czechoslovakia. 3) It was certain that Mr. Chamberlain's quiet aversion for the Soviet Union, plus his long standing resolve to draw...
...Berlin Stock Exchange has suffered under Adolf Hitler shrank the prices of leading issues by some 7% one day last week. A prime German blue chip, Vereinigte Stahl Werke (United Steel Works), dipped for the first time in several years below its par of 100 marks per share. None doubted that without the strict Nazi control of German finance the break would have been even worse. Although prices later recovered perhaps half their losses last week, as the Reichsbank strongly supported blue chips, the mood of the average German investor had turned deeper blue...
...doctor from ten to eleven, a stock broker from eleven to twelve, and an author from twelve to one. It is my unalterable conviction that under such a system all but the rarest adult would be foredoomed to failure in all capacities, and do his best work in none...