Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Streets of Sorrow), lately guide in the New York World's Fair Palestine Pavilion, sought passage to Palestine where he will join the Jewish Legion. An eye-witness to Hitler's 1923 beer-hall Putsch, Actor Muenz gibed: "I was in the street when the machine guns began to fire. Immediately Hitler was down on his face. His General, Franz Ritter von Epp, got disgusted and shouted: 'What's the matter with you? You are supposed to be a soldier. Stand up. The people want to see you. . . .' [Hitler] was a simple, very simple, sick...
Hospital trains began to arrive in Berlin and Hitler Youths were given first-aid training. But no casualty lists were published. Stories of glorious victories over the Poles gave the people something to be happy about. Secure in its belief that the defeat of Poland would be followed by peace, Germany faced its hardships last week...
...Hombre -The Man. Last week Latin Americans picked out El Hombre to cope with the world crisis. They wrote editorials praising his attitude, talked about him in bars, shops, homes, and, as if he were a fighting cock to be pitted one day against the ruler of the roost, began to say that in the end it would be up to El Hombre to stop the Führer. El Hombre's name: Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...notable exception among the foreign countries being given the bee: the U. S. Tokyo newspapers suddenly began to notice the importance of U. S. markets. A Japanese airline official turned up in the U. S. to make arrangements for a Japanese-owned Guam-Tokyo link with the China Clipper. Another was in Manhattan expansively buying U. S. instead of German automobiles and machinery. Six Japanese goodwill fliers spanned the U. S. The Japanese knew very well that if the Divine Gale hit the U. S. too hard, it might turn around and blow a not-so-divine fleet across...
Meanwhile the unlucky Chinese began to feel the gale's force. Having once hated foreign devils for exploiting China, now they look upon them as China's white hope for resistance against Japan. But the European War lessened probability of aid from the white man. In Hong Kong, for instance, which has been the centre of Chinese financial juggling, the British announced that they could no longer allow unrestricted exchange of currencies. China's financial brain, Harvard-educated T. V. Soong, immediately went inland to Chungking, taking with him most of China's financial resources, human...