Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were ordered to pay on such goods as jewelry, furs and furniture, an export tax of 100%. A further decree barred German dealers from bidding on goods auctioned by non-Aryans, and provided that if a Jew, having failed to sell goods at auction, offers them for sale a second time but fails to find a private buyer, they should automatically be forfeited to the State. Why the Nazis went to this length was not apparent, since it would have been more in accord with Aryan forthrightness simply to order Jews to stay and starve or emigrate naked...
...Sudeten German Führer, sent only subordinates to confer with the Viscount. The consideration with which he treated them was considered spectacular. Lord Runciman's program included 20-minute formal calls on President Eduard Benes and Premier Milan Hodza; two lengthy conferences with henchmen of Henlein, the second lasting until 2 a. m.; next day lunch with...
...victim of "baseball," said President Walter O. Briggs (automobile bodies) who became sole owner of the club three years ago, spent $1,000,000 to enlarge the ball park, changed its name from Navin Field to Briggs Stadium. When the Tigers, who had finished second in 1936 and 1937, were still in fifth place last week, it was too much for Owner Briggs...
Died. Equipoise, 10, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's chestnut stallion; of enteritis (inflammation of the bowels); at Lexington, Ky. Second only to Sun Beau among the world's top money winners, Equipoise brought home $338,610 in his six racing years. Sun Beau's earnings...
...Second highest is the Scripps-Howard chain, 22 daily and eight Sunday newspapers, with a circulation of 1,992,129 daily and 701,841 Sunday. *Shortly after the 1929 crash, Hearst began advocating a $5,000,000,000 spending program to bring back prosperity...