Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Williamstown. Dr. Theodor Emanuel Gugenheim Gregory of the University of London, Faculty of Economics, complained: "The New York stock market has resumed its historic role as a disturber of the economic peace of the world...
...moving north, the ship circled Berlin before heading for Tokyo, 6,880 mi. away. Hearty Charles C. Younggreen of Milwaukee, President of the International Advertising Association there in convention, got to a microphone and said: "We greet the Graf Zeppelin as ambassador of good will to the entire world." The ship proceeded quietly over Danzig, Koenigsberg, the onetime Eastern War Front, into Russia...
...angry at the foolish flyer. The incident contained irony. The Assistant Secretary had prepared a speech on flying safety to deliver over the radio. Later he did speak, declaring that the U. S. Government takes more pains to protect the flying public than any other nation in the world-by establishing airways, inspecting aircraft, licensing pilots, rating flying schools. He warned passengers to make their pilot produce his Department of Commerce license...
Land of the Soviets, Russian round-the-world plane, was forced down and damaged in an uninhabited Siberian region, 170 miles from Irkutsk. The tour was canceled...
...raid emphasized for Jews the significance and need of a meeting, an event, that had taken place two days before, about 1,900 miles away in Zurich, Switzerland. There, outstanding Jews of the world had assembled, for the meeting of the Jewish Council Agency, the new body uniting the Zionist and non-Zionist factions of Jewry (TIME, Aug. 19). Three hours before the fast of Tisha B'Ab began, there had been tears of joy, embracing, glad shouts of "Mazeltov!" (Congratulations) as Zionists and non-Zionists had signed a pledge to work in harmony for the Jewish National Home...