Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inland Mission Station in Kijabe is a little dwelling some 300 yards from the rest of the buildings. Hulda Stumpf, Secretary to the Head Missionary, lived there alone. She was 63, had been in Kijabe for 20 years. She had grown deaf in the Lord's service. Last week her body was found, attacked, bruised, smothered to death...
...last week, when the second Hague Conference met, the new "Big Three" were seen to be CURTIUS, TARDIEU and SNOWDEN, with the courageous, crippled and allegedly crapulous* little Yorkshireman totally missing from headlines because, having bitten off $9,520,000 worth of "spongecake." he has sensibly shut his mouth...
...little crude were these arrangements, for the lower house had just risen a few days before. But a big, bland tablecloth covered chinks and splinters, was only a little lumpy. Eyeing each other shrewdly sat the two young statesmen, newly great, between whom the chief issues of last week lay: Dr. Julius Curtius, successor to the late great Dr. Gustav Stresemann as Foreign Minister of the German Republic; and M. André Pierre Gabriel Amedeé Tardieu, famed as "L'Americain," successor to M. Aristide Briand as Prime Minister of the French Republic...
...German position, which Dr. Curtius undoubtedly urged upon M. Tardieu last week, is: First that no punishment is provided for France if she decides to welch on her debts to Britain and the U. S.; second that Washington has within the past fortnight signed a separate financial agreement with Berlin in which there is not one word about "sanctions" covering payment by the Fatherland of the cost of U. S. occupation of part of Germany after the war; finally that Germany expects the Allies and particularly M. Tardieu to follow the lead of President Hoover in taking the word...
Compromise on this great issue was scarcely in the air last week as the one-time battlefield enemies argued in a bedroom. But the possibility was mooted that a reparations arbitration board might be set up, with Germany and France both binding themselves to accept its decisions...