Word: squats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promptly His Majesty asked Gold-Standardist Henri Jaspar to form a Cabinet. M. Jaspar at once tried to get as Finance Minister Belgium's squat old Copper King and No. 1 banker, M. Emile Francqui, stabilizer of the Belgian franc in 1926. Before the Cabinet slate was announced last week, Brussels proletarians heard that it would contain a director of the Liége National Arms Factory, began murmuring against "The Gun Makers' Cabinet...
Died. Raymond Poincaré, 74, Wartime President and three times Premier of France; after four years of ill health; in Paris. A squat, white-bearded, glacial man with a prodigious memory, he set "liquidation of the War" as his great goal, was responsible for French occupation of the Ruhr, staved off financial panic at home, retired in 1929 after consolidating France's War indebtedness to Britain...
...tell that made his first story one of the best-seller nonfiction books of the year. "Retreat from Glory" gives the chaotic situation of unrest in central Europe just after the war. With an eye to details, he describes the elegant British minister, Sir George Clerk: "Alongside the squat khaki-and-blue-trousered figures of the Czech and French generals he looked like a thoroughbred in a field of hacks." Mr. Lockhart unconsciously appears to recognize in his present book the lack of drama that colored his last as he admits "In Russia I had witnessed a proletarian revolution...
...last three weeks every arsonist out of jail in Chicago has been shivering in his boots. Reason was a fat, squat little grandmother named Bertha Warshovsky who was comfortably seated in an armchair at the State Attorney's office telling her life story...
Ship News. The full title is New York Ship News Reporters Association. The organization's only function is to maintain headquarters in a long, squat building at the Battery, the noisy tip of Manhattan Island. The building, hard by the Customs House, is called the Barge Office. There a Western Union printer reports on every floating object that passes Quarantine, eight miles down New York Harbor from the Battery...