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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...European countries, neutrals not excepted, were on short rations at the close of World War I, and in 1919 hungry Finland bought $9,000,000 worth of U. S. food. In 1923, when representatives of the Great Powers started coming to Washington to make refunding agreements, Finland was first to sign up and every year since has punctually sent up to $390,000 to Washington in interest and amortization. Finland in the role of the U. S.'s only non-welshing "war debtor" so impressed the U. S. Congress that in 1935 it voted to spend...
Later, would-be Peacemaker Shaw, asked by London's Daily Worker, Communist organ, whether he favored peace negotiations and an immediate armistice, answered: "I'm in favor of negotiations . . . but a philosopher-or a God-might hold that, as the 1914-1918 war was well worth while because it got rid of the German, Austrian, Turkish and Russian Empires, this one might be worthwhile if it got rid of the British Empire: not a very pleasant process for us. . . . But the sooner the order is given to cease fire and turn up the lights the better...
Wilno to Liths. No. 3 on the Stalin card is Lithuania, which has no naval harbor worth Russia's taking. Reason: Hitler seized last spring the only important Lithuanian harbor, Memel. Nevertheless, last week in Moscow the Lithuanian Foreign Minister Juozas Urbsys signed with Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov a treaty reducing his country to the same status as Latvia and Estonia, but with two new wrinkles...
None of these pyrotechnics has hurt Hormel's business. Since Jay C. took over, his company has had only one bad year: a $608,779 deficit in 1931. Last year it netted a comfortable $1,031,574 profit on sales of $56,921,648 worth of meat, vegetables, poultry products, paid a $1.50 dividend on 474,990 shares of common...
...Bronx, Supreme Court Justice John E. McGeehan warned a jury panel that $500 worth of property had been stolen from his chambers in a few weeks' time, explained: "Nothing is safe around here unless it is nailed down. [Someone] even made away with my towels and soap...