Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wealthiest States in the Union is sound, solid, barn-bursting Ohio. But ever since 1935, when the Federal Government turned relief back to the States, Ohio's relief program has suffered crisis after crisis: one rolls into the next like waves on the beach...
...Back to the U. S. with greater devotion than ever hurried Fritz Kuhn. Nobody knew better than he what a tough job he was in for. Those Jews were everywhere. Recruits came, but there was no stampede to jump on the Bundwagon. And everywhere the Gottverdammt Jews made trouble: Fritz was arrested for traffic violations, for drunkenness; attacks in the courts, in the press, in the seat of the pants...
...Chamberlain's reply startled the House and jarred the sensibilities of several nations. The Government, he said, would shortly authorize the Royal Navy to seize not only contraband goods suspected of going into Germany, but all "exports of German origin or ownership." Germany, lying on her economic back half-throttled, had started kicking below the belt. "As a measure of justified reprisal" for "this fresh outrage," Germany should be throttled entirely. She should be cut off from her export markets, from which she derives foreign exchange to buy war sinews...
Just to show it was not "mastered," one U-boat added to Germany's sea score last week by nailing the new British cruiser Belfast at the mouth of the Firth of Forth, sending her back crippled to Rosyth naval base. Another U-boat sank a small ship which Berlin claimed was a Q-boat-an armed Britisher disguised as a Dutchman to lure submarines. The British identified this ship as the innocent 5,133-ton Dutch freighter Sliedrecht, whose crew was turned loose to drift in a lifeboat for seven and a half days...
...Gustaf Emil Mannerheim toured the border that day and heard of no firing. A Finnish Government spokesman concluded that the entire incident was "completely untrue." At Helsinki the Government had no intention of ordering troops to retire from a frontier fairly jammed with Red Army contingents. To withdraw from back of their fortified line would be something like the French, on the Western Front, evacuating the Maginot Line...