Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Axis Victory. Rumanian Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu, fresh from talking with Dictator Hitler, went to London to put the finishing touches to the Rumanian-British-French-Polish alliance. Conversely, at Bucharest arrived a group of British financial experts to plan an extension of trade between the two countries. In a week full of diplomatic soundings, however, the Axis powers scored the most important victory...
...French Line put special guards on watch over the liner Normandie at Le Havre after the Paris mysteriously burned...
...been an M. P. since 1929, Minister of Transport since 1937. Best guess as to the reason for the choice: Neville Chamberlain chose a second-rate man to please business interests, who will be irked by the whole idea, would be doubly irked if an energetic man were put in charge...
...Republic; the German Majority Socialists served the Kaiser with an ultimatum to abdicate; revolution spread to Frankfort, Cologne, Diisseldorf, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Madgeburg, Brunswick; the rulers of Brunswick, Bavaria, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, abdicated; the Kaiser fled; the German Republic was proclaimed; Croatian independence was proclaimed in Zagreb; a revolt in Budapest put liberal Count Karolyi in power...
...Illustrators neared the end of a month of sober lectures by technicians including non-illustrators Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Reginald Marsh. At the swank Park Lane its members reveled until dawn in gay costume at their annual "Bal Scramboree." And at the Grand Central Fifth Avenue Art Galleries the society put on its 37th annual exhibition, prefaced by a defensive program note. "These men are first-class craftsmen in a most difficult field," it said defiantly, "but the art critics and the plush carpeted galleries know them...