Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conservative," wrote Sir Oswald to the peer who has been his chief backer. "We Black Shirts are Fascists. . . . You would like us to abandon the creed of Fascism and the word Fascist. We cannot do this because it is a creed which means everything in the world to us." He expounded three principles of action in which he believes and Lord Rothermere apparently does...
...Hitler's address rambled darkly among the alleged plots of the men shot by his orders. Tears streamed down his face as he told of a five-hour soul struggle between himself and Storm Troop Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm. "I adjured him for the last time voluntarily to abandon this madness. . . . The result of our conversation, however, turned out to be that Roehm, realizing he in no circumstances could count on me for his scheme, started preparations to eliminate me personally." The scheme (and Herr Hitler's allusions to it were maddeningly vague) was apparantly to get the German...
...Keep your windows closed!" was the next order, to discourage snipers. Dutch troopers enforced it by firing with abandon into every open window they saw in the strike districts. Then tanks arrived. Cr-r-r-unch-down went the workmen's barricades and bayonet work began in earnest. On the fourth night Amsterdam's hospitals were full and eight deaths had been chalked up but the "Dole Riot" seemed about over...
Last week Manhattan's huge Equitable Building at No. 120 Broadway announced that it would abandon its oil heating system, switch back to anthracite coal. Prime reason for the change was the fact that fuel oil stocks have been reduced 20% since September to a ten-year low, with a consequent rise in "Bunker C" prices from $1.05 to $1.80 per bbl. To the oil industry Equitable's decision meant not only the loss of 70,000 bbl. worth of business annually, but a dangerous precedent...
...Council has had to reduce the yearly budgets voted in 1931 from $4,225,000 to $2,898,000 to $2,716,855. Besides a deficit of $529,000 incurred last year, a 1934 deficit of $500,000 impends. If this is not made up the National Council may abandon missionary work in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska where venerable Peter Trimble Rowe has been laboring as bishop for 40 years...