Word: presented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Missouri, the Stark-Clark feud boiled up toward Hatfield-McCoy temperature. Governor Lloyd Crow Stark, New Deal 1940 candidate for Senator, and present Senator Bennett Champ Clark began active electioneering for control of the Missouri delegation to the 1940 Democratic convention...
...year later she began her peace and neutrality offensive by offering her sprawling palace at The Hague for the First International Peace Conference, at which many of the present conventions governing war, the rights of neutrals, the principles of arbitration were first laid down...
...hard life playing second fiddle for 33 years in a severely formal and moral court. The Queen was far from happily married, and the Prince was far from popular with the strict Dutch. Wilhelmina came very near dying from a miscarriage. Her only child, Juliana, the present Heir to the Throne, was born in 1909. The Prince Consort died...
...General. Aside from being able to tell such high-sounding potentates as the Sultan of Solo or the Sultan of Jokyakarta how to run their States, he can also veto any measure that a rebellious Volksraad might pass. Moreover, he himself can "pass" his own ordinances. Appointed to his present job in 1936, the Governor General formerly held the important post of Dutch Minister to Belgium. His wife is the U. S.-born Christina Marburg, daughter of Theodore Marburg, onetime U. S. Minister to Belgium...
...early Nazi days gave Hitler invaluable fiscal support, suddenly arrived with his wife and child at the Locarno Hotel in Lucerne, settled down for "an indefinite stay." Said Tycoon Thyssen: "As a member of the Reichstag I expressed myself in timely and emphatic fashion against the war and the present policy of the Reich Government. This political attitude threatened to cause consequences which forced me to leave Germany...