Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first was to guard the Führer. First 55 leader was the late Julius Schreck, the Führer's adjutant and chauffeur. In the next four years the leadership was changed three times; in 1929 Himmler got his crack at the job and the organization began to hum. He and it have hummed ever since...
...sentence had to be said in private because it was a grave admission: "The war hits us pretty heavily." The Japanese have come to realize all too well that their adventure in China is now primarily a currency war rather than an orthodox military engagement. Last week they began to take official notice of the fact that in the currency war, China has both natural advantages and allies with cash, while Japan has neither...
...London, Meraud and her sister, Tanis, entertained with songs & sketches. They and their innumerable cousins of the rich and fecund Guinness family (brewing) were chief among the Bright Young People whom Evelyn Waugh parodied in Vile Bodies. One of their inventions was the Treasure Hunt-a fad which began by perturbing nocturnal London, traveled to the high schools of the Far West, became the Scavenger Hunt and returned to Paris via the cinema (TIME, March...
...told the supercilious young Marquess of Donegall, "the damned thing holds more, you fool." One day she ran off to France with Señor Alvaro Guevara, a charming Chilean painter whose portrait of Poetess Edith Sitwell hangs in the Tate Gallery. Tentative little paintings by Meraud Guevara began to. appear in the Paris Salon des Independants. That was ten years...
...National Conference of Christians & Jews began distributing 10,000,000 "Badges of Tolerance" (see cut). The buttons are issued on a card bearing the thought...