Word: olds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plenty of old-fashioned British Christmas cards were posted, but World War II set many of the King's subjects to addressing cards which were chiefly or entirely about winning the war, with "Merry Christmas" omitted altogether. Typical was a card on which a beefy British bulldog bestrides the Union Jack with the greeting: "Strong and yet kind, whilst children near him play, but foes who touch the flag will...
...still later, Jew though he is, he became the Soviet Ambassador to the Jew-baiting Nazis. Adolf Hitler treated him with all honor, however, and modified the famed anti-Semitic Nürnberg laws so that the Ambassador could keep Aryan scrub women and maids under 45 years old in his Embassy...
...obtain the necessary "unanimous" vote condemning Soviet Russia in the Assembly, although unanimous notes are not necessarily there, President Carl J. Hambro, also Speaker of Norway's Storting (Parliament), tried an old parliamentary trick. He simply acked all those in favor of the resolution to remain seated. No delegate was brave enough to rise and declare he was for the Soviet Union. In the Council, the League executive organ, where one negative vote means defeat of a measure, those voting for Russia's ouster were France, Great Britain, Bolivia, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, the Union of South Africa...
...Ethiopia, Spain, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia or Poland. The League's Secretariat was set to work to coordinate and classify Finland's more pressing needs, and the prospects seemed good that at least some nations would send supplies. France let it be known that she could send some old artillery. Britain thought she could spare a few more planes...
...Stockholm's Royal Palace last week, 13 men stood before old King Gustaf V and took their oaths of office. They were the Cabinet Ministers who formed Sweden's new coalition Government. Among them were a few familiar faces. Easygoing, affable, fanciful Premier Per Albin Hansson had also headed the outgoing Cabinet. But there were some missing faces, and conspicuous among these was that of disillusioned Rickard J. Sandier, who had served as Foreign Minister the past seven years. He was going back to his old job as head of the Central Bureau of Statistics and his absence...