Word: antis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swedish-Finnish frontier. Some 4,000 Swedes volunteered for the Finnish Army and several hundred of them last week managed to cross the frontier and join up. Even more important were the supplies rushed to Finland by Sweden's great Bofors armament works, which sent gratis 25 anti-aircraft guns originally ordered by Poland...
Lowlands had been flooded, augmenting the chain of lakes across the isthmus and leaving only narrow strips of land between the lakes as passageway for invaders. This land, wooded and boulder-studded, was a natural anti-tank defense, to which the Finns had added long lines of jagged, diamond-shaped boulders, three deep, as their main lines of defense against tanks. Above the narrow roads other huge boulders had been poised, so that the mere cutting of a cord sent them hurtling into the road. Concrete pillboxes, sunk into the earth and covered with sod, guarded all main avenues...
Dressed as a field marshal, his ungloved hands blue with cold, his boots splashed, King George, unflagging, visited airdromes and pillboxes, reviewed regiments, watched anti-aircraft rangefinders work, trenches being dug, marched in places through ankle-deep mud. As well as with soldiers, he chatted with newsmen, who were permitted to accompany him in rotating groups of five. To oldtime Correspondent Sir Philip Gibbs, he said: "I suppose you feel as I do that this war is a continuation of the last...
Author Ernest Hemingway and William Allan Neilson, president-emeritus of Smith College, were appointed co-chairmen of the sponsoring committee to arrange the conference for Protection of Foreign Born. Keynoted Co-Chairman Neilson: "Noncitizens are being denied jobs and are being threatened with registration. More than 70 so-called anti-alien bills pending in the 76th Congress indicate the manner in which the attacks upon the freedom of the noncitizen can be used...
...Ludecke, onetime friend and subordinate of Adolf Hitler, had his application for U. S. citizenship turned down in a Detroit court, pending a future hearing. Reason: The judge had read Ludecke's I Knew Hitler, declared Author Ludecke "a cheap politician . . . dumb as an oyster in the shell . . . anti-everything...