Word: backed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large extent the tentative, day-to-day diplomacy of the anti-fascist powers is attributable to the fact that the statesmen of the "Peace Front" have been slow to find conclusive answers to these questions. But facts are known, and the basic facts go back to the days before the last war. The Nazi economy has merely given a new twist to these basic facts of Germany's 70-year-old economic history...
...might forget their "revisionist" doctrines and adopt the naked class war propounded by Karl Marx. Lacking internal flexibility and with the shaky Austro-Hungarian Empire messing up the possibilities of progress to the east, the German economic system had seemingly reached its limits of growth as far back as 1914, Germany's "assisted capitalism" had run head-on into Germany's poverty of resources-a circumstance which was to have an ominous parallel 25 years later...
...Germany was a rich creditor nation, with an estimated 35 billion marks invested abroad. Although she imported more than she exported, income from this overseas capital and revenues from a merchant marine second only to England's were more than enough to make up the difference. To back a note circulation of 1,800,000,000 marks the Reichsbank held 1,370,000,000 marks in gold-double the coverage considered normal in 1914. Another two billion marks in gold currency were in circulation among the people. These liquid reserves made it easy for Germany to market...
Finding its broadcasts getting nothing more than attentive laughter in Britain, the Nazi radio last month decided to provide more English news, jokes, gems from the London Times. London newspaper stories were hurriedly translated by German journalists in London, telephoned to Berlin, retranslated into more Munchausen English and waved back to Britain twelve hours later. When the laughter continued, the Propaganda Ministry grudgingly hired an Englishman, a member of Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist Blackshirts, at 1,000 marks ($400) a month to do the job the British way. Attempting to get across...
...blacksmith, Dr. Christiansen came to the U. S. from Larvik, Norway, went to St. Olaf College 26 years ago as head of the music department. Since then he has become the college's most respected figure, and though St. Olaf's youngsters call him "Christy" behind his back, they would never dare address him as anything but Dr. Christiansen...