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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bringer of life out of naught...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHALLENGE | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

...already wearing swastika brassards, augmented by roving bands of Hitler Youth and Storm Troops. A great roundup and lockup of Socialists, Communists, labor unionists and Fatherland Fronters. the only legal party under Chancellor Schuschnigg, was instantly begun, and Seyss-Inquart sped to Linz to greet his master, Hitler. Ultimatum-bringer Josef Bürckel stayed in Vienna to reorganize the Austrian Nazi Party and prepare a plebiscite for April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Austria Is Finished | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...great trilogy, Aeschylus made Prometheus, the fire-bringer, pay a fearful price for defying Zeus. On seeing Sophocles' Oedipus Rex & Oedipus Tyrannus good Athenian audiences were properly shocked at the King's insensate stubbornness in attempting to influence economic conditions. The mythical hubris of the Trojans before their city was sacked was only matched by the historical hubris of the Athenians themselves just before their defeat in the Peloponnesian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hubris | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...been moved off lands above the dam to make way for Coolidge Lake, had received $146,000 in U.S. compensation. At the dam dedication, however, the Apaches were in peaceful mood.† They made Citizen Coolidge "Chief White Father"; the Pimas bestowed upon him the title of "The Bringer of Waters."** Then the chiefs of both tribes and Chief White Father sat down on top of the dam to smoke their first peace pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dam Dedicator | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

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