Word: civil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from 44 to 50. The lines in his face are only slightly deeper. He has added some 25 pounds to his weight and four inches to his girth, but that is much less than some of his lieutenants have gained. The early Hitler accent was typical of the Austrian civil service class into which he was born. Educated Austrians declare it had a Czech flavor. Now he has a more cultivated speech. The voice is noticeably coarser and Herr Hitler, despite the assurances of six attending physicians, is still worried about cancer of the throat...
...victory parade in Madrid, supposed officially to end the civil war, was first scheduled for the week after Madrid's surrender on March 29. It was then postponed to May 2, later, to May 15. Last week Generalissimo Francisco Franco, in Malaga, dropped a hint that he could not yet consider the war over. About the same time there came a report from Rome that the Madrid march would now take place...
...sound of big guns pounding in Japan's 1932 attack on Shanghai. Crises began to come so fast, were reported so fully, speculated about so constantly, that they became horrifyingly familiar: a crisis over the League censure of Japan for seizing Manchukuo, followed by crises over the brief civil war in Austria, the assassinations of Dollfuss and of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, over the invasion of Ethiopia, the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the civil war in Spain, the German seizure of Austria, the Russian-Japanese clash in the Far East, the menacing gestures of Hitler against Czecho-Slovakia-until...
Died. José Aranguren, onetime Republican Commander of Barcelona's Civil Guard, the brave Colonel Ximenes of André Malraux' novel, Man's Hope; before one of Franco's firing squads; in Barcelona...
...head of the fair is Grover Aloysius Whalen. And the fair as it stands today-a $157,000,000 extroversion of Mr. Whalen's fantastic extrovert personality-gives him fair claim to the title of greatest salesman alive today. Grover Whalen suggested the fair in 1935 and a civil engineer named Joseph Shadgen came through with a historical excuse-the 150th anniversary of Washington's inauguration; Shadgen also suggested the site-a foul ash dump in Corona, L. I. which New York Park Commissioner Robert Moses had long itched to clean up. The original scheme was a fair...