Word: partnerships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer who spoke first, "is the deep-rooted joy to see in our midst a guest who is one of the lonely men in history who are not tried by historic events but determine the history of their country themselves!" Germany and Italy have now formed an "ideal partnership," Hitler went on, "Fascist Italy has been transformed into a new Roman Empire by the ingenious activities of a compelling personality" and "Germany has become a great power, thanks to her racial attitude and her military strength." The two countries have the "cultural mission" of opposing "the Democratic and Marxist International...
...Endeavour II as the challenger, lost his navigator when Donald MacPhee died of gastric ulcers, then lost the cup to Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Ranger with four straight defeats. At the end of this unfortunate adventure overseas, with relations cooler than they had been in 20 years of partnership, the Sigrists and Sopwiths sailed home...
...fight Japan. It brings to China's aid about 100,000 of the best trained, best equipped troops in Asia, and with them two of China's ablest generals: bushy-browed Chu Teh and bob-haired Mao Tse-tung. The two of them have had a longtime partnership, General Chu being the military expert, General Mao the shrewd politician...
...winter of 1849 two young brothers arrived in Paris to make their literary fortune. Polished, aristocratic, neurasthenic, comfortably off, Edmond (27) and Jules (19) were an extraordinarily close corporation. They not only lived together in nearly continuous amity until death dissolved their partnership, they collaborated in all their writing, thought alike on nearly every subject and kept a joint diary. Little of their 30-odd collaborations-plays, novels, history, criticism-has survived into the 20th Century, but their Journals may be counted on to keep their memories green. Much of that racy record is still withheld. From the material...
...speaker who was paid to appear, a redhaired, modest young man named Monroe "'Boston'' Strause, the current sensation of the pastry world. Son of a Los Angeles flour miller named Boston Monroe Strause, he uses his middle name as a kind of trademark. First in partnership with his Uncle Mike in the M. & M. Pie Co. of Los Angeles, "Boston" carried on when Mike quit. A friendly restaurateur helped him design cylindrical aluminum carrying racks for his pies, mahogany-trimmed pie trucks. "They were simply beautiful," Pieman Strause remembers, "just like Pullman cars...