Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need to rehabilitate the honor of our people on the battlefield. There nobody has taken it from us. Only one disgrace has befallen us. It was not in the West, not in the East, but back home. This disgrace [boring from within by Jews and Communists] we have made good again...
...world should not see in our gathering here an expression of a wish to acquire new laurels on the battlefield. The German people are conscious of the fact that no war could come which could ever give us more honor than we acquired in the last one. For it was greater honor to hold off, bravely, courageously, valiantly, a superior force for four and one-half years, than it was an honor for 20 nations to conquer one nation...
Germany's rebuttal was to hold two monster Nazi demonstrations, one near the Polish border on the battlefield of Tannenberg, the other near the French border at quiet little Rudesheim on the Rhine. By roaring 600 mi. across Germany in a fast plane. Handsome Adolf was able to appear and speak at both. At Tannenberg he presented to Old Paul von Hindenburg a tract of land adjacent to his Neudeck home; at Rudesheim he whooped it up for the Saar plebiscite of 1935 which may return the Saar Basin to Germany...
Last week Mrs. Rumsey's Consumer's Board was revealed as a battlefield in which a clash of ideas had virtually stalemated its activities. Though Mrs. Rumsey was the daughter of the late great Railroader Edward Henry Harriman and founded the socialite Junior League, she is no conservative social idler. An ardent liberal with Democratic leanings, she believes in a co-operative commonwealth and the utmost protection for consumers against industrial profiteering. To her board was appointed Professor William Fielding Ogburn, University of Chicago sociologist who worked on Herbert Hoover's mammoth social trends survey. When...
...Bronx, N. Y., Helen Vatale Cerrulo quarreled with her 21-year-old husband Mike, went home to her mother. Few hours later, armed with baseball bats and pick handles, a dozen Cerrulos & friends met a dozen Vatales & friends on a vacant lot. When riot squads cleared the battlefield one Vatale henchman lay still with a fractured skull, another lay dead...