Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, July 10). They still sat in court last week with wicker baskets over their heads, as is the Japanese rule in case of capital crimes. What the police feared was another wave of assassinations staged by patriotic youths who think that Japan has not yet seized enough Chinese soil. Since the present Government is honestly trying to grab all it safely can, Tokyo police, who are sometimes patriotically lenient toward would-be assassins, made real and strenuous efforts...
...step toward organization of world peace!" Farsighted Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinov was born in a part of Imperial Russia which now happens to be Polish. Several years ago, when Russia and Poland were publicly at daggers points, he began making overtures to a Pole who had been born on soil now part of the Soviet Union, famed August Zaleski. "The Briand of the North," then Foreign Minister of Poland. Almost furtively the two statesmen laid the basis of a diplomatic rapprochement, perhaps not desired at that time by either Dictator Stalin or Dictator Pilsudski. Last year M. Zaleski was replaced...
...which have never known the labelling of a surveying committee, a place with its own ancient and particular name. Rough earthy Anglo-Saxon names, like the "Yard," "Rotten Row," Cape Cod," have an indigenous correctness which latinic titles ("Esplanade," "Boulevard" etc) can never claim, especially when transported to foreign soil...
...Friend of the Small Farmer," Herr Walter Darré. As every Junker knows Herr Darré regards their class as a feudal excrescence on new Germany. Sermonlike, his pamphlets all have lengthy titles impressive to yokels, such as A New Aristocracy, But Of The Blood And The Soil and The Peasantry As The Living Spring Of The Nordic Race. With Herr Darré in the saddle last week Old Paul's Junker friends seemed doomed. Agriculture was only half of Dr. Hugenberg's Ministry. Economics, the other half. Chancellor Hitler split off last week and placed in charge...
...preparation for the next jump to Iceland, en route to Chicago. But there were 25 that took off from the home base at Orbetello the morning before (TIME, June 26). Twenty-five crossed the Alps at Spluga Pass, roared over Zurich and Basle, and trailed shadows on the soil of Strasbourg, Mannheim, Cologne. The 25 wheeled over Amsterdam to be saluted in the air by a convoy of 60 Dutch seaplanes celebrating the 20th birthday of the Royal Dutch Air Force with a mass formation of their own. Down came the first black triad, led by the plane labelled...