Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with looking everywhere and with everybody for a settlement, which, however, demands loyalty, reciprocity and parallel action.'' Thus indirectly he tossed on Signer Mussolini the blame for the impasse of the friendship talks. "However." continued the Premier, "France will persist in proving her close union, her calm self-possession. She can do it because she is strong. Her will for peace is her first guarantee, her strength is her supreme guarantee. No matter what the circumstances, France is fully capable of assuring the inviolability of her frontiers and her empire by herself." As if to add punch...
...sale-20,000 houses, the Cardiff Shipping Exchange, 1,000 stores, 250 pubs, cinema houses, wide suburban areas. Also included in the sale was Cardiff Castle, in which Lord Bute once entertained 10,000 guests and to which tourists pay one shilling entrance fee. Lord Bute, who with characteristic self-effacement went to War as Private Crichton-Stuart, also owns London and Edinburgh town houses, Kames Castle and Mount Stuart, Rothesay, on the Isle of Bute, the luxurious Moorish-style El Minzah Palace Hotel of Tangier, the Castle of Guadacorte, about ten miles north of Gibraltar in Rightist Spain...
Wisconsin's new president, big Clarence Addison Dykstra, facing his first major administrative crisis, quickly defined a liberal by acting like one. He declared himself neutral in the controversy, said the students "must settle their problem as a lesson in self-government." He also hazarded the opinion that the dispute was political, not racial. Said he: "Doubtless in the heat of the Cardinal campaign some opposition to individual Jews has been expressed, but I feel sure that this opposition has not extended further than to specific individuals. I have found no anti-Semitic trend or temper...
Last week directors of Allegheny and Ludlum voted to merge: "... Important economies will be effected. . . . The combined companies . . . will be more nearly self-contained because of the complementing facilities." Only step necessary to complete the deal is ratification by stockholders, which is expected early in August. Stockholders of both companies will exchange their holdings share for share in the new company, to be called Allegheny...
Submitting a series of proposals for remedying inadequacy in House facilities at a time when House facilities at a time when House rejections are at their annual high point, a self-constituted committee of Freshmen met late last week with Dean Hanford, who indicated that he would conduct a comprehensive survey of the practicability of the measures proposed, it was announced last night...