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...professor at the University of London, M.P. for twelve years; in London. Two of Sir Halford's half-forgotten papers on the world's "Heartland" (1904 and 1919) were seized upon by the Germans some years later and converted into the basis for Nazi theories of world conquest, eventually caused Sir Halford to be hailed as "the father of geopolitics...
Aggressive St. Paul's ice men eked out a 6 to 4 conquest over the Crimson Saturday, at Concord, as Hoffman and Gardiner of the winners led the field with two tallies each...
...sing the mezzo-soprano solo in the U.S. premiere of Prokofiev's cantata, Alexander Nevsky. Says Jennie: "All of a sudden everything came to me." After her Town Hall debut in 1943, the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson wrote: "Miss Tourel's conquest . . . was . . . without any local parallel since Kirsten Flagstad's debut at the Metropolitan Opera House some nine seasons...
...splitting: "I would infinitely prefer to side with our Socialist Comrade Attlee than with Comrade Tito." Said Nenni: "What has happened is an episode in the war of the classes, which is approaching a vaster battle, which will not only be Socialist, but of all laborers for the conquest of the earth...
...both English and Spanish." † The most important country of Eastern Europe is Russia, which was not represented at the Institute because Soviet officials ignored several Invitations to send a representative. The Communist Party in Cleveland circulated a pamphlet calling the Institute part of a "Hitlerite dream of world conquest." The Chicago Tribune was also annoyed, although it seemed to have the opposite objection: "One Worlders Stress U.S. as a Global Santa," said the Tribune; it also called the participants "lickspittle members." * U.S.-educated Jan Masaryk spoke the word peace in several tongues: paix (French), paz (Spanish), pace (Italian...