Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When 1, 066 tons of munitions exploded at Black Tom Terminal near Jersey City in 1916, the U. S. was at war with Germany only to the extent of peddling supplies to the Allies. War for the U. S. was still three months away when in 1917 a munitions plant blew up near Kingsland, N. J., eight miles from the ruins of Black...
Whether Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was then waging an undeclared war of sabotage on the U. S. was the issue in the famed, long-lived Black Tom and Kingsland Cases. Last week no less an adjudicator than Supreme Court Justice Owen Josephus Roberts found that Germany 1) did indeed war by sabotage on the U. S. and other neutrals; 2) caused the Black Tom and Kingsland disasters (killing three men and a child) ; and 3) by continuously presenting perjured testimony, through its Foreign Office officials tried to hide the proof of its guilt. Therefore, said he, Germany must...
despair . . . black reaction . . . Fascism...
Deputies who were in the Army appeared in grey Hungarian campaign kit. Forty Nazi deputies, fresh from decorating Budapest's Cenotaph, rolled up to the House of Parliament in a parade of swastika-decked automobiles and clumped into the Chamber in high boots, black trousers and green shirts. Nazis who were outraged when a Jewish photographer took their picture were admonished by their leader that "propaganda comes before all." The Hungarian Life Party members, supporters of the Government, came dressed in all black uniforms. Sole mufti-clad deputy was outspoken Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csaky, who thinks the Government...
...they can permanently cut off Tientsin, the Japanese may be able to suppress one of the most troublesome of the black bourses where Japanese currency is bought and sold at a discount. This is not only an economic disadvantage but a loss of face. But even if the Japanese are able to clear the money-changers out of Tientsin, there remain Shanghai and the illegal black bourses in Tsingtao and other Chinese cities in which there are no foreign concessions or settlements. And if Shanghai were seized the legal black bourse could move to British-owned Hong Kong...