Word: six
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week, to finish the two and a half remaining years of his six-year term, the Electoral College picked Finland's third hero: suave, British-knighted, wartime Premier Rysto Heikki Ryti, who owns the best Finnish voice for catching U. S. and British ears. As longtime Governor of the Bank of Finland, he can claim most of the credit for the "Finns-are-honest" reputation of his country, has appeared to U. S. citizens the champion of Finland's determination to pay its war debt...
Approved were the following drastic changes in Panama's governmental system: 1) increase in the President's term from four to six years, retroactive to include Arnulfo Arias' own term; 2) disfranchisement of all non-Spanish-speaking Negroes, prohibition of further immigration by these, by Asiatics and North Africans; 3) establishment of Government monopolies and expropriation of private property at the discretion of the President; 4) declaration of a state of siege if & when the President deems necessary. In the hands of a race-conscious, ambitious man-which Arnulfo Arias is-such a constitution could...
...Governor General invited the Japanese to a reception. The Japanese accepted, planning to attend in native costume or uniform. The Dutch sent word that those who attend receptions of the Governor General always go in formal European dress. Immediately, each tailor shop in town received orders for five or six small tail coats. At the reception, Colonel Itsuo Ishimoto of the mission drank more Bols gin than was good for him, became attracted by the long curved creese of a Javanese prince. The creese is more than a sword to the Javanese; it is a sacred symbol...
Divorced. Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., nomadic writer and onetime publisher; from Helen Varner Vanderbilt; after six years' marriage, during which Mrs. Vanderbilt, his third wife, sought several times to file separation suits, was frustrated on each occasion because process servers could not locate the restless Vanderbilt trailer; in Carson City...
...past six months U. S. turfmen have imported the cream of English thoroughbreds (nearly 200), 120 of whom are of racing...