Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...living Icelandic statesmen is Jonas Jonsson, "The Mussolini of the North," who is Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastics and of course a "literary man." Like Il Duce he is said to have a jealous eye upon the Crown, not with a view to seizing it for himself but with intent to make Iceland a republic. Today the King of Iceland is also King Christian X of Denmark. But eager Icelandic-Americans explain: "Iceland is completely independent of Denmark. It is like two corporations in America, one may be a silk mill and the other an iron mine...
...Count Giuseppe Volpi Di Misurata, onetime (1925-28) Italian Minister of Finance. Although a shipping enterprise brought Count Volpi his first wealth, his chief interest now is not water to bear his vessels, but water to spin the turbines of the vast hydro-electric enterprises which he controls. Recently, intent upon the development of a gigantic European electric power system, he decided he needed U. S. capital. Last week he and his associates finished a far-reaching deal with Americans who had capital, were glad to spend it for power in Europe. The result was a new holding company, European...
...National City Co. Its advertisement of the bonds, he said, intended "to deceive the American public into the belief that the proceeds of these bonds were to be used to foster and finance the development of chemical and allied industries in the U. S. . . . whereas the real purpose and intent was to obtain $30,000,000 from American citizens with which to strengthen the I. G. Farben-industrie Aktiengesellschaft in Germany in competition with and in destruction of the American chemical industry...