Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coolidge, summering in the Black Hills, renounced third-term aspirations by handing out a little slip of paper, reading "I do not choose to run." Last week, on the eleventh anniversary of that occasion, Third Termite Charles Michelson, grizzled pressagent of the Democratic National Committee, declared: ". . . Franklin Roosevelt would take a case of hives rather than four more years of the headache that being President means. It will not be an easy choice, at that. . . . The man in the White House is not the kind of individual who would let his personal desires interfere with what seemed...
...Taylor estimated that in the case of Germany alone some 650,000 persons (Jews, part-Jews classed as non-Aryans, and persecuted Catholics) face ejection, not to mention possible Jewish emigrations from Poland, Hungary, etc. At the present rate of refugee departures from Germany, declared Mr. Taylor, it would take 16 years for all the refugees to leave. He therefore urged the London secretariat to set itself the goal of so speeding departures from Germany that the exodus will be complete within five years...
...only the graveyard as a horizon-all this is contrary to human dignity and can result only in the catastrophic disturbance of relations between nations!" Such language was not calculated to soothe Adolf Hitler, whose help would be most useful in getting Jews out of Germany. Already forbidden to take money with them, German Jews were recently forbidden by new Nazi decrees to take even their household goods and movable possessions. They were ordered to pay on such goods as jewelry, furs and furniture, an export tax of 100%. A further decree barred German dealers from bidding on goods auctioned...
...George Rublee, 70, international lawyer and longtime legal adviser to the U. S. Government was appointed director of the prospective refugee bureau, prepared last week to sail for London to take charge...
...from Haifa for London. Their pilgrimage to the Holy Land had been marked by an intense wave of Arab-Jewish terrorism. As the members departed, Britain's Colonial Secretary, youthful Malcolm MacDonald, arrived by air, spent two days secretly inspecting the security measures Britain has been forced to take...