Word: clockings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Witness Bridges demonstrated that whether he is a Communist or not is important primarily because it will determine whether U. S. citizens who own property and hire labor can be rid of Harry Bridges, trade unionist. The quality which made him tick as precisely and dangerously as a bomb-clock did not come from Marx. It was simple, deep and active discontent-with things as he found them during his boyhood Down Under in Australia, with the U. S. as he found it when he sailed through the Golden Gate on a freighter...
...Because Nazis interfered with Polish customs guards, Warsaw closed the frontier to certain goods, sent a note to the Danzig Senate demanding that interference cease, offering to negotiate. Danzig's Nazi press screamed that Poland had opened a trade war, and the rumors began: at 7 o'clock August 6 trouble would break when Nazis refused to recognize the authority of customs officials; highly placed Poles were preparing to flee; stories from Berlin had German officers getting assignments for August 19 in the Polish towns of Lodz and Posen. All this added warmth to a simple speech...
...condition of the troops who would be called upon to bear the brunt of the offensive. As he was having dinner that night the answers came back. They were moderately encouraging. After dinner Galliéni got Joffre on the telephone, renewed his arguments, and at ten o'clock that night Joffre issued his Instruction No. 6: "It is desirable to take advantage of the exposed position of the German First Army . . . all dispositions will be taken during the day of Sept. 5, with a view of launching an attack...
...good grey little General leads a good grey little life. Just before 9 o'clock each morning he leaves his apartment on the third floor of a five-story house at No. 55 Avenue Foch, near Paris' Arc de Triomphe. He is driven in a staff car to his office in a long, low, old-fashioned building at No. 4 bis Boulevard des Invalides, below the gold dome of Napoleon's tomb...
...morning last week two squadrons of heavy Blenheim and Wellington bombers soared out of Midland mists and headed for France. Fully loaded, cruising at 6,000 feet under sealed orders, they crossed the Channel to Le Havre, turned due south. At nine o'clock eight more squadrons of medium Hampden and Battle bombers left England to touch the French coast near the mouth of the Somme, pass west of Paris. At eleven two more squadrons of heavy bombers followed the path of the first. By noon some 150 English warplanes, carrying 400 men, were hovering over France; heavy bombers...