Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parties have continued to mouth the old phrases and flaunt the old slogans . . . behind the scenes they have surrendered abjectly to big business interests and become their errand boys...
...afternoon last week at Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.), a fringe of people stood behind a hemp rope. A soldier passed down the line proffering a roll of cotton batting. The people were advised to stuff bits of the cotton into their ears, stand on their toes, gape their mouths. A moment later there broke forth from eight sinister-nosed 75mm. anti-aircraft guns a maddening, vicious cacaphony that made trouser-legs tremble and skirts sway in waves of force. High in the bright ceiling, some 2,000 ft. above, innocent bits of cotton appeared, no bigger than those...
Parliament met to elect the new Regent amid tensest excitement, for representatives of the majority Peasant Party had not yet been instructed for whom they were to vote. With a worried pucker in his brow Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu convoked his Cabinet for a last minute huddle behind locked doors. Several U. S. correspondents present bulletined to their editors: The likeliest candidate for the Regency is Queen Marie...
...unsheathing against Count Bethlen the same bright weapon of open propaganda openly arrived at which he wielded mightily during the War until the Powers agreed that Czechoslovakia ought and must become an independent state. Like his good friend Herbert Clark Hoover, Thomas Garrigue Masaryk works by mobilizing public opinion behind "the moral and spiritual values." Last week he declared, according to Dr. Rajniss, that Czechoslovakia is ready...
This afternoon at 12.15 o'clock, the University soccer team will meet Bridgewater Normal on the field behind the Harvard Business School. The University squad is aiming for its third straight victory having already beaten Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Syracuse...