Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members, or about one in five U. S. workers. As the largest organized economic minorities in the U. S., they have an enormous stake in the democracy in which they live, a corresponding duty to the People of whom they are part. This week, after their fashions, they report to the People...
...vanquished Poles in another few thousand well-chosen words. The Polish government was supported by only 15% of the population, a "lapdog of the Western democracies," an "abortion" of the Versailles Treaty. As to the character of the population, he went back to 1598 and quoted a diplomatic report of one Sir George Carew: "The outstanding features of Polish character were cruelty and lack of moral restraint." When modern Poland, "although not menaced at all," received the Allies' guarantees, the "shameless insults" which she heaped on the Third Reich at last became unbearable. Hence Sept...
...Berlin meanwhile the German Institute For Bank Research and Science turned out a report showing that 43% of the shares in Polish corporations are held by foreign capital. France is stuck with an investment of 391,000,000 zlotys ($60,610,000); the U. S. with 277,000,000 zlotys ($52,630,000); and the German stake was 251,000,000 zlotys. In the Soviet part of partitioned Poland all capital investments will probably be taken over by Moscow soon, but most of Polish industry is in the German sector and up to this week Berlin had not tampered with...
...Since the report of Mayor Starzynski's death came from Berlin, he may have died at German hands, and been given the glory (so that Germany would not have the shame). Germans may even have wished him dead, and said he was-without basis...
...first two years in his new job K. T. Keller steered Chrysler Corp. through some muddy business roads, but Chrysler's sales hit their top in 1937: $769,807,839. And when Chrysler's report for the first six months of 1939 was published in August, he had some sensational news for U. S. business. After a miserable depression year, Chrysler's sales had jumped to $342,788,293, up a whacking 82% from the first half of 1938. For the rest of this year Chrysler, like the rest of the U. S. motor industry (see below...