Word: remains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dismal cargo: 937 German-Jewish refugees bound for Cuba. The ten-year-old, oil-burning, 16,732-ton ship was scheduled to discharge its miserable company at Havana, proceed to New York to pick up passengers for a gay June cruise to the West Indies. The refugees were to remain in Cuba until they could enter the U. S. They were a typical group of the world's newest homeless wanderers: men in sports clothes who had paid as much as $480 for their passage; distraught women; doctors and lawyers who had lost their practices; men who had been...
...known for certain who may fight whom; in stacking up the armed forces of the world against each other it is not certain for example whether Japan is to be counted as one of the Axis powers, or because of her involvement in China she may remain neutral ; it is equally uncertain whether Russia may belong to the Democratic front or be a neutral; it is even uncertain whether the U. S. will be a neutral or a member of the Democratic front...
...Abolish lump-sum payments to the survivors of insured dead, substitute monthly pensions for widows and dependent children until they are 16 (18 if they remain in school...
...still Edouard Daladier, but he had grave doubts how much longer he would remain Premier of France. At that conference he had written off, as a total loss, the strong alliances which since the World War had kept France the biggest power in Europe. He had been caught in a corner, trapped because he had not dared break the first rule of modern French politics-never antagonize England. The French people might forgive Edouard Daladier for breaking his Government's word, pledged until only a fortnight before, that France would fight before yielding Czechoslovakia, but he could not expect...
...Butcher Gustav Gruebner was crowned last week with a hero's funeral. From Adolf Hitler came a lily wreath and from Kalthof, Danzig Territory, where he was killed by a Polish chauffeur, to neighboring Marienburg, East Prussia, where his grave waited, Nazi formations lined the road, saluted the remains of their latest "martyr." Poles breathed easier when Fiihrer Hitler's gesture was confined to flowers. German newspapers played down the incident. The Danzig plum was not yet ripe, so eager Danzig Nazis must wait, perhaps "until autumn," for Anschluss with the Reich. Said Danzig Nazi Leader Helmuth Andres...