Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remote kitchen corner, cut down a huge servant's bathroom to provide a servant's closet, enlarged the living room a trifle (to 20 ft. by 36 ft). Neither amateur nor professional provided more than one closet for two master bedrooms. Facing west over the Hudson toward Father Divine, the "dream house" may be ready for occupancy in time for Franklin Roosevelt to hear the election returns there, unless he outlaws from it radios as well as telephones...
...week: "The principal desire of Germany is establishment of the closest possible cooperation among the nations-thus leading to their Welfare, Peace and Happiness." This was a different note indeed from Kaiser Wilhelm II's bluster about "Berlin to Bagdad" and the "Drang nach Osten" or German "pressure toward the East." Anxious to preserve the new amenities between Germany and Britain established at Munich, yet anxious, too, to cash in on Germany's freshly won kudos, Dr. Funk opened as quietly as possible a Turkish credit with Germany of 150,000,000 marks...
...Italian people in territories of the Empire." Finally, the Grand Council, taking cognizance of the fact that Britain has for years been extremely reluctant to admit more Jews to Palestine, because of the bloody resistance of the Arabs (see p. 22), made a tentative gesture. "Dependent upon the attitude toward Fascism assumed by Jews in the World as a whole." the Grand Council announced that it "does not exclude the possibility of conceding controlled immigration of Jews into some zones of Ethiopia, even deflecting such emigrations from Palestine." To stimulate those Jews in Italy who are not exempt from...
Although reproved by the Vatican for his "political Catholicism," Cardinal Innitzer for a time maintained a policy of conciliation toward the Nazis'. Lately, however, he has condemned Nazi marriage laws and the abolition of confessional schools as violations of the old Austrian concordat with the Holy...
...Reynolds) reaction is the usual one for a person who confuses liberal attitudes toward current political and economic affairs with a Communist attitude," he said. "There is of course no basis for the statement Dr. Einstein is a Communist, nor is there any foundation for the claim universities are hotbeds of communism...