Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August 7-the day when 110 Soviet tanks, 40 warplanes, heavy Russian field artillery and some thousands of Red Army troops were beaten back after Soviet Far East Marshal Vasily Bluecher had hurled them in a major offensive to recapture Changkufeng Hill. Mr. Stomoniakov, as. Moscow's ace Far East expert, had presumably been advising Commissar Litvinoff to stand firm and await a Russian victory. After Stomoniakov was fired, Commissar Litvinoff quickly came to terms with Ambassador Shigemitsu, who had proposed the truce in the first place. It became effective at noon on August 11-just four days after...
...Author: Max Ways, ace editorial writer for Publisher David Stern's Philadelphia Record...
...successful in insuring peace in that country!" Ace London Cartoonist David Low went to town on the angelic chord...
When U. S. Ambassador to Germany Hugh Wilson, an ace career diplomat, suddenly flew to Prague on what he carefully described as "just a holiday visit" to his friend U. S. Minister to Czechoslovakia Wilbur J. Carr, Czechs were delighted...
...through all the martyrs of radicalism. Meanwhile he has married a poor, tuberculous girl, returned to Spain to finance an uprising. A hero in the first days of the Spanish Civil War, Cristobal suggests buying off the Rebels, goes down because he has held his ten-billion-dollar ace too long...