Word: afternoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enough Rope. Falkenau, a typical Sudeten German town, was a flaunting forest of swastika banners on the afternoon before this Henlein order went out. By next morning not a single swastika was flying in Falkenau, and on the streets Nazis no longer greeted each other with the Hitler salute, as all had done the day before...
Later that afternoon, Hero Corrigan headed another parade, this one for school children. It was during this that close observers got their widest eye-opener. One part of the line of march led through a barren stretch along Western Avenue. Perched on the folded top of the official car sat Corrigan, bowing grandly right and left and not a soul on the sidewalks...
...afternoon last week Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau sat in bland conclave with the Press. Deluged with questions about how the U. S. dollar and U. S. economy were faring in the worst war scare since 1914, he finally remarked: "I think we are proving to the world that the U. S. is the financial centre of the world and we can resist the kind of nervousness which people who have money are feeling at this time...
Coach Skip Stahley sent his Freshman football aspirants through two long "fundamental" workouts Saturday morning and afternoon, and hard drills again booked for today. Over 70 candidates have signed up, but the number is expected to hit close to the century mark this week...
...clock yesterday afternoon University Hall reported that not a single member of the Class of 1942 had handed in his study card, although one neophyte appeared, but without his adviser's signature...