Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stockmarket, partly to cancelations because of the alteration of the cruise route from the Orient to the Antipodes. In the main, however, battles in Spain, China, unrest in the Holy Land, North Africa and the Mediterranean have simply diverted cruises to South America, Scandinavia, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and the West Indies. In this winter of f lourishing cruise business most of the world's greatest liners-including the Rex, Berengaria, Empress of Britain, Paris, Normandie-will sail from the world's greatest cruise port, carrying an estimated 57,000 passengers to seas afar at an estimated...
Nightly the European ether is filled with rival government propaganda in the form of distorted news broadcasts. Save only France, every Continental power engages in this practice of poisoning men's minds. Because even so far away as New Zealand British citizens are fed honeyed. anti-British words from Berlin and Rome, Great Britain fortnight ago decided to supply an antidote. It announced that British Broadcasting Corporation would begin to send out "straight news" in seven languages to undeceive misinformed mankind...
...will perpetuates his desire for the peace and union of mankind by founding about 175 annual scholarships from the Dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, several colonies, Germany and the United States. At present there are 32 students selected from the United States, four from each of eight groups of contiguous states...
Mandate over Spain? The real bombshells of the Geneva week were exploded by two representatives of British dominions. Up at the Council table popped New Zealand's William Joseph Jordan. "The League should assume a mandate over Spain!" he proposed. "It should hold fair elections to end the civil war." Hasty adjournment of the Council squelched this concrete proposal. The other dominion bombshell was exploded not at Geneva but at Montreal by South African Delegate to the League of Nations Charles Theodore te Water. He declared that South Africa "would be willing to participate in a general agreement...
...State Cordell Hull sent a message outlining the 16 reciprocal trade treaties which concern apples. A blow to lope however was delivered by Fruit Specialist Fred A. Motz of the U. S. bureau of agricultural economics, who pointed out that good apples from South America, South Africa and New Zealand are finding favor in Europe, thus giving U. S. apples real competition. The mass of delegates consoled themselves by playing golf, dancing and wishing there were more delegates among them like light-haired, blue-eyed Abraham Kouris, 37, of Tel Aviv, Palestine. A Russian who speaks six languages, Appleman Kouris...