Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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European protest against U. S. film domination last week erupted thrice...
Grandi v. Tardieu. So young is Signor Dino Grandi, 35, that he has grown a beard like an Egyptian mummy's to achieve dignity as Italian Foreign Minister. Last week the beard waggled angrily. Against the will of France, Italy sought to impose on the conference this procedure: agreement should first be reached on the ratios of naval strength in which the powers would stand; secondly, each power should announce its total tonnage needs...
...aircraft carriers are already covered by the Washington Treaty. The other 569,000 tons, France would divide thus: large cruisers 120,000 tons; light cruisers and destroyers 200,000; submarines 124,000; miscellaneous 55,000. These figures, unsensational, were the only real cards laid on the conference table last week...
Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain, spent a busy-dizzy week-end entertaining the entire U. S. delegation at his official country place, Chequers Court, rushing them on a sightseeing tour round Buckinghamshire. Delegates and prime minister visited Milton's cottage at Chalfont St. Giles; the graves of William Penn and Edmund ("on conciliation with America") Burke; Hughenden. country home of the great Jew Benjamin Disraeli. Said U. S. Secretary of State Stimson: "One of the most interesting days of my life. ... To me all this is sacred ground...
Death in the House of Commons came last week to the pet project of the twin "Hearsts of England," the Lords Beaverbrook and Rothermere...