Word: croix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Political Croix...
...some time before and it was unnecessary to remind people of it. From the March of Time newsreel about Ethiopia, the Board cut all evidences of British armed force, including naval guns, marching men and officers toasting the King. From the newsreel about France's Fascist organization, the Croix de Feu, it cut all indications that the late Alexandre Stavisky was protected by grafting high officials and that the Paris riots of February 1934, resulted in some killings...
...into a hornet's nest than have permitted Parliament to meet. Electric in the air of Paris was a feeling that, if France is not to drift further and further to the Left, she must jog Right in the present crisis. That is, her own Fascists of the Croix de Feu, which has no connection with either Mussolini or Hitler, must raise their own standard under Colonel François de la Rocque and prevent the Socialists and Communists of France from turning the French Government and the League of Nations against Italian Fascism. Thus for the first time...
With lean Colonel de la Rocque ordering the youths of the Croix de Feu to mobilize all over France in a series of ominous mass meetings, Newspundit Henri de Kerillis declared in L'Echo de Paris: "An order for mobilization against Italy, even a partial one, an act of war, even limited to a simple act of aggression toward Italy, would create in France a violent commotion of bloody, of desperate resistance and an atmosphere of civil...
...Garden in 1925, John S. Hammond was ousted from the Garden's vice-presidency in 1932, bought control in 1934, had himself made board chairman. His principal interest remains hockey, not prizefights. A one-time All-America Yale footballer who enlisted in the Army in 1916, got the Croix de Guerre and the Distinguished Service Medal during the War, John Reed Kilpatrick was put in as president of the Garden in 1933, has been bucking Colonel Hammond ever since the latter became board chairman. Last year Madison Square Garden did not run at a loss...