Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Czechs is just a part of the great expansion, within and without, which the Germans are having, Sheean said. The German press and radio is so censored that the people have lost interest in Hitler's dramatic moves, he went on. They were more concerned with a new cheap car the government is building than in the seizure of the Czechs...
...dusk his car climbed the hill to ancient Hradschin Castle. Slowly he ascended its stairs to his suite, rooms used by Thomas Masaryk and Eduard Benes, founders of the republic. Adolf Hitler's personal gold-bordered swastika was unfurled overhead, he stepped to a window and looked down on the twinkling lights of another subject city...
Residents watched for one car with a battleship searchlight on top, one with bulletproof steel shutters, another with a small pipe organ perched on the running board. The richest and most eccentric group of men in the world were coming to town for the annual meeting of the Indian Chamber of Princes...
...cause: a cow, which had leaped from a cattle car as the freight backed into a siding, fell beneath the wheels, derailed two cars in the path of the express...
...last week William Crapo Durant had lost three fortunes, been twice ousted as president of General Motors, seen his Durant car fail, his art treasures auctioned. Yet he remained spry and bright-eyed, an oldtimer who had played a losing but gallant game. Then came a sour tagline to his riches-to-rags story: he was cited by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace for a measly commodity fraud Secretary Wallace charged 77-year-old Willie Durant, his wife and various associates including the brokerage houses of Alexander Eisemann & Co. and H. W. Armstrong & Co. with "having cheated " and defrauded...