Word: crushings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American conferences in the world will not keep the United States out of another world conflict, unless Washington, in cooperation with the Latin-American desire for organized peace, takes bold steps to crush the opportunity for commercial profit from a foreign war. Politically this country is isolated from Europe, but not so commercially...
...reproaching him for paying too much attention to other women, and writing angry letters to feminine friends she suspected of trying to steal him from her. Back in New York Reed dropped her a note: "Goodbye, my darling. I cannot live with you. You smother me. You crush me. You want to kill my spirit." He headed for Mexico to write up the Revolution. She went along as far as El Paso. He returned, went to Colorado to write up the Ludlow Massacre. She stayed in Manhattan, experimented with Mexican drugs. They were reconciled, went abroad again, with Reed leaving...
...crush Arab resistance to the policy of making Palestine a "national homeland" for Jews, King Edward was graciously pleased to sign at Balmoral Castle in Scotland last week an Order in Council submitted by His Majesty's Government...
...promptly received in audience last week was Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, just let out of quarantine after passing several weeks at home with chicken pox. Ready were prominent Jewish friends of Edward VIII to exhort him on the subject of the British Expeditionary Force now speeding to Palestine to crush Arab insurgence and make it a true "Jewish homeland." Ready was the India Office with suggestions requiring His Majesty's approval before it can be settled whether there will be a Coronation Durbar. And ready to be unpacked was a large truckload of souvenirs acquired by the King...
...Benito Mussolini rose from the head of the table, strode across the room, stepped out on to the balcony. Ta ra ta ta ra ta ta ra! blared the bugles below. The cheers of the crowd rose to a shrill, hysterical scream. Women fainted in the crush and their rigid bodies were passed out from hand to hand over the heads of the crowd. Finally, chin outthrust, Benito Mussolini rested both hands on the balustrade and bellowed: "Officers, non-commissioned officers, privates, Black Shirts of the Fascist revolution, Italian men and women at home and throughout the world-LISTEN...