Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firm a foundation. Germany's condition would cause less stoical a man than Hitler to weep. Her trade balance would be justly complimented by being called unfavorable, and her political stability is almost wholly dependent on the extent to which Germans are willing to tighten their belts without resort to revolt. The Saar plebiscite is not yet over, nor is the question of how Germany will be able to meet her payments to France for the Saar coal mines. But the most serious problem of all, which has recently been disturbingly quiescent, is that of Austrian independence. To ensure this...
...permit his Fascist Party to be represented in Montreux, Switzerland last week at the first World Conference of Pax Romanizers. President of the Action Committee is hopeful Fascist Eugenio Coselschi, devoutly anxious to be considered Dictator Benito Mussolini's intimate friend. To mild Montreux ("warmest winter resort in Switzerland") went as his guests the leaders of vaguely Fascist groups in France, the Netherlands, the Irish Free State, Rumania, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland. No delegate showed up to represent Adolf Hitler. Moreover, two of II Duce's most ardent foreign disciples, Austria's Prince Ernst...
...recalled his first trip to Warm Springs in the autumn of 1924. As there were no doctors in attendance at the obscure Georgia resort in those days, he had to figure out his own aquatic exercises. Gradually the word began to pass around, and there was great excitement when one day two paralytics were carried off the train. Mr. Roosevelt reported that he "undertook to become doctor and physiotherapist...
...Committee might be forced to resort to that policy, if there were no one on the present coaching staff who could be regarded as a potential head coach. However, there is a general feeling that Harvard now has such a man on its staff...
...woman, he boldly argued, should be free to live together without even the slim ties of Judge Ben Lindsey's companionate marriage, to part at any time until the woman became pregnant. Even then their bond should not be indissoluble. But he counseled parents to resort to divorce only for the gravest of reasons. Simple adultery was not one of them...