Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vienna promptly overflowed with rumors of the number of potent Austrians who had been bribed by Phönix-Wien's mysterious manager, the late Dr. Wilhelm Berliner. Last week Chancellor Schuschnigg revealed that he held a powerful counter-weapon against Prince von Starhemberg, the actual, 24-page list of those whom Phönix-Wien had reached with cash euphemistically described as ''loans" "stock sales" and "insurance policies." This lifesaver, which he had been handed by a high Phönix-Wien official, Chancellor Schuschnigg proceeded to publish...
...embattled autumn of 1919, when the sailors from Kronstadt in time's nick reinforced workers' battalions and Red Army detachments defending the old capital. That the workers and Army men were compelled to turn around two years later and butcher the fickle and truculent Kronstadt sailors for counter revolution is obviously a sequel which this Bolshevist propaganda film chooses to leave unpictured. In We Are From Kron stadt, the sailors are determinedly glorified as immortal heroes of the working class. This reverent attitude and the genuine historical excitement of the film leave little time for cinematic frivolity. Nevertheless...
High Commissioner Wauchope, however, had taken his own precautions. For four hours he stopped long-distance telephone service to prevent the spread of false rumors. He disseminated counter-rumors of his own. The police machine guns would fire, not into the air, but into the mob at any future Arab disturbance. Thus the Friday services were attended, not by the expected tens of thousands of Arabs, but by 500. When the Arabs came out of the Mosque, detachments of police fell in before and behind them, led nonresidents quietly out of the city...
...monster, rain, is feared by the directors of the Tercentenary. They have drawn up elaborate counter schemes. If the weather is unfavorable the morning meeting on Friday will be held in the Memorial Church. Loud speakers will be put up in adjoining halls for the benefit of those who are in Cambridge. The afternoon meeting of the Alumni Association will be scheduled in Sanders Theatre with the same loud speaker system in operation...
...propose to give him the whole county for his work," hired a local craftsman. Painter Blythe retorted with a long poem in the Uniontown newspaper criticizing Waynesburg's manners, clothes, public houses, beds, women. A Greene County poet replied in angry verse, drawing from Blythe a counter attack in which his adversary was compared to a pumpkin, Greene County to a "sow grown fat with buttermilk and meal...