Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Not without some social vision, King Carol has helped peasants to buy farm implements, inaugurated new educational methods, built better roads, founded air lines. The Army, long deep in scandal, has been tidied up. There is still a long way to go, but the age-old corruption of Rumania, largely...
Last week Italy not only suddenly removed six Cabinet members but went a long way toward changing allies when Il Duce violently shook up the Fascist hierarchy. The side-changing had been hopefully expected by Great Britain and France for some weeks, but few had supposed so many big Government...
This year conservative opposition is headed up by the Independent nominee, General Juan Andreu Almazán, running on a platform which promises to slow down the rate of change but to keep some of the more important recent reforms-i.e., the agrarian program, nationalization of oil, etc. Normally...
Some years before World War I, the Kaiser took Queen Wilhelmina-a plump, sweet-faced young matron-out to his Army maneuvers. Intending to impress his little neighbor with Germany's military might, he pointed out to her a strapping unit of the Prussian Guard.
Last week the heroine of this legend was once more thinking of the German Army and The Netherlands' floodgates. Nowadays you can stop an army by flooding just over its hub caps, and Lieut. General Baron J. G. G. van Voorst tot Voorst, Commander in the Field of the...