Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The line was named after brilliant old Lord Curzon, onetime famed Viceroy of India, in 1919 serving his first year as Britain's Foreign Secretary. He recommended it to the Versailles Peace Conference. In the turmoil into which Eastern Europe was soon to be plunged, however, the Curzon line...
Well could the Nizam afford such generosity. The revenues of his State amount to some $25,000,000 a year-all his own if he wants it. Moreover, His Exalted Highness is considered by India's princely spendthrifts a miser who is inordinately stingy with elephants for State durbars...
Fortnight ago, Grynszpan, still awaiting trial in Paris, unsuccessfully petitioned to be allowed to join the French Army "so that I could kill some more Germans." And last week in Germany, his race had once again to pay for his crime. All during 1939 Jews in Germany have frantically sold...
Maurice Duplessis' Union Nationals swept to power in 1936, after 39 years of Liberal rule in Quebec, on the strength of some high-sounding oratory against trusts and political graft. But he found promises when out of office easier to make than laws when in. He dropped trust-busting...
During his twelve years as master of the Kremlin few authentic anecdotes have been printed about mysterious, closelipped, Georgia-born Joseph Stalin. Last week able New York Times Correspondent Otto D. Tolischus, nosing about the three Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) which have been taken under the Soviet Union'...