Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BERLIN--Fuehrer Adolf Hitler was described in Nazi quarters tonight as being "highly skeptical" of the peace proposal and mediation offer sent to him and the other warring nations by King Leopold of the Belgians and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands...
OSLO, Norway, Tuesday--The Norwegian Government, rejecting Germany's demand for "immediate release" of the Nazi prize crew taken from the American steamer City of Flint, announced early today that the Germans will be sent to a concentration camp...
...wild in the streets. The Catholic Herald estimated there were 100,000 at large in London. While the press regarded the situation with "dismay," the Government stood adamant against opening schools in the danger areas, lest it encourage a wholesale return. It did, however, recall 200 teachers to London, sent them out to round up youngsters in the streets and hold impromptu classes on sandbags, in church crypts, in basements...
From April, 1933, until last week, the Japanese yen was nailed to the prestigious British pound at the rate of one shilling twopence per yen though Japan's purchases from Britain were small potatoes and the U. S. far & away her best provider. When Europe's war sent the pound hopping around between $4.68 and $3.72½, the yen hopped alongside, between 275/16? and 22⅞? U. S. money. Last week the Japanese Cabinet decided that it would be simpler to clear on New York; that the pound-pegged yen, which happened to be at 23½?, would...
Office in London; the Foreign Office appealed to Ambassador Joe Kennedy. Resourceful Joe sent a cable direct to General Motors building at the World's Fair. A pressagent there called Lady Baldwin at the Waldorf (cost, 5?), told her to come right out, he'd see she was well taken care...