Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German staff officer in Bolivia?-"We had our experience with German officers in the Chaco. We sent them home...
...years ahead of Franklin Roosevelt at Groton and Harvard, calls the President "Frank," undoubtedly can and will give his teacher many a pointer on diplomacy as it is practiced in explosive Tokyo. Already rated one of the best career diplomats in the U. S. Foreign Service when Herbert Hoover sent him to Japan in 1932, Ambassador Grew by general consensus has done a bang up job of pleasantly conveying unpleasant news to the Nipponese...
...delegates of 54 nationalities to the Council of Nationalities. Ukraine, Uzbek on the Afghanistan border, Turkmen on the Caspian, Armenian, Georgian, six other "constituent republics" sent 25 each. Tatars from the Volga, Karelians from the swampy North, Buriat-Mongolians from the shores of Lake Baikal, Moldavians from the southwestern borders of the Ukraine, 18 other "autonomous republics" sent eleven each, while 45 came from nine regions and twelve from national districts like Komi, Chukotsk in the Arctic...
...that did not occur, and who called in the sonorous and yet biting language of Marx to an unlistening world proletariat. Seizing the Petrograd radio while the war still raged, they broadcast frantically for peace: "To all! To all! To all!" They summoned a congress of the Third International, sent out a manifesto which began: "Europe is in flames; the wolves of capitalism howl among the ruins!" They dropped their rigorous membership requirements only when Denikin was marching on Moscow, when membership, involving danger above everything, could appeal only to revolutionists. When the civil war ended they were masters...
...Nieman bequest, so far from having failed, has doubtless already begun to elevate the standards of American journalism." It has sent an important reverberation through the press of the nation, with the effect that today journalism may well become the province of highly educated men. Its effect cannot be measured solely in terms of the personal benefit derived by nine men; the Nieman Fellowships have begun to demonstrate to the American press the importance of education...