Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrats and Republicans in mutual self-protection had agreed to have a non-partisan debate. Excerpts...
...always two versions to diplomatic incidents, and I'affaire Gruebner was no exception. The Polish account: the Polish Vice-Commissioner to Danzig went to Kaltof to investigate the sacking of a Polish customs house by a German mob; his party was attacked, compelling his chauffeur to fire in self-defense. To this the German version bears little resemblance: there was merely an orderly demonstration against "molestations" of German girls by Polish officials, and Gustav Gruebner was plugged for no reason at all. The Nazi-controlled Danzig Government through the Senate President promptly demanded compensation for Butcher Gustav...
...Jewish immigration for the next five years to 75,000, bringing the total Jewish population to approximately 525,000 (Arab population, 990,000); 3) restrictions on the sale of land to Jews; 4) an independent Palestine with guarantees for the Jewish minority, following a ten-year period of increasing self-government...
Small compared to the quantitative increase in U. S. productive capacity in 1920-29, the Five-Year Plans represented a greater rate of increase. They doubled Russia's industrial stature, made her an industrial power, left her self-sufficient in production of oil, coal, iron ore, manganese, cellulose, cotton, super phosphates. But it set a vast segment of the Russian proletariat moving from factory to factory, from village to city, in one of the great tidal movements of humanity that Tolstoy long ago described as the ceaseless wanderings of workmen over the earth. It ended uniform wages. Breakdowns, delays...
...will not be easy to separate black from white," the editorial says. "No one wants to cut off from able and honorable students, graduate or undergraduate, the opportunity to earn money by tutoring that is innocent, helpful, and consonant with the Harvard emphasis on self-education. No one wants to prevent a student who neds help from getting...