Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Believing these things, Franklin Roosevelt had no choice but to turn to his countrymen as he turned to them in the dark hours of 1933. So far as he was concerned, Roosevelt, the President of many emergencies, had come to the greatest emergency of all, a real national emergency in which all the nation's efforts-and then more efforts-were required...
Last week Major Quisling and his Party were in little better case than their unfortunate countrymen. As German officials moved in, Nazi Commissioner Josef Terboven issued a decree divorcing the Samling and the State, provided that in the future the Party should pay its own way, even declared that Quisling's Storm Troopers should dig down for their own railway fares. The Nazis also demanded that the Samling pay back 500,000 kroner ($115,000) taken from the State treasury for Party...
...unfit for walking but may be an outstanding fighter pilot." These challenging questions & answers were made last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association by two South African doctors. Drs. Ernst Jokl and Eustace Henry Cluver of Johannesburg. To determine the physical fitness of thousands of their countrymen, they had made many and varied experiments...
...farm zoo at Ciftlik. He loves horse racing as well as riding, becomes boyishly animated at meetings. In the evening his recreation is quieter: he likes to have three musicians come to his house and play quartets with him, taking the cello himself. In spite of such relaxation, his countrymen are afraid he will die of over work, as Kamâl Atatürk died of over indulgence. This fear is a tribute, a sign of Turkey's trust...
...bellied Galician. Unlike most celebrated modern Spanish artists (Picasso, Miro, Dali, Gris, et al.) Painter Souto has done most of his painting away from Paris. His heavily stippled, somber-colored paintings of street scenes and peasant figures look conservative alongside the geometric and psychopathic fantasies of his more famed countrymen. But his 'work is agreeably realistic and dourly, muddily individual...