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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correspondent of long experience, Sheean began his career on the University of Chicago's student paper, where he says he got valuable training...
...Apex case began in the sit-down year of 1937. On May 6, between 10,000 and 15,000 Philadelphia hosiers assembled at 5th and Luzerne Streets, where notoriously antiunion Apex had its six-story plant. Hundreds of workers smashed down the doors, swarmed into the plant, held it for 48 days. When Apex got it back, so much damage had been done that the plant could not start operations for nearly six months. Last week, Apex's suit for triple damages under the Sherman Act went to trial. In the courtroom...
Questions. Once the first shock of the grab had passed, all kinds of questions began to rear their puzzling heads. The first was: How surprised were the Governments of the world at the second Czecho-Slovak coup...
Monday. "German boys," lied Berlin papers on Monday, "are mishandled with brass knuckles . . . while Jews applaud. . . . German houses are fired on by Czech armored cars. . . . Murder and arson rule again in the Czecho-Slovak Republic. . . ." Radio announcers talked of "Communists in Czech gendarme uniforms." Next day the push began in earnest...
...hour and 45 minutes after the first proclamation was issued the Army's march on Prague began. "Attention! Attention!" blared Czech radios every five minutes all day. "German Army infantry and aircraft are beginning occupation of the republic. . . . The slightest resistance will bring . . . utter brutality. All commands have to obey the order. The units will be disarmed. Military and civil airplanes must remain in airports...