Word: datedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be massed at weak frontiers, conferences of Generals will be held, inspired stories will be printed telling of fleets of German planes ready to take off and blast Paris and London to bits with newly invented high-pressure bombs. Last week British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, announcing the date of Parliament's adjournment for a three months' vacation, boasted that "there is every indication that Britain's newly regained power is restoring confidence to Europe." In showing off that power the British Government was also showing Führer Hitler that two can play...
...celebrations ended last week, Ramón Serrano Suñer won his greatest victories to date. Cabinet decree suddenly suspended further public meetings, called up groups of officers who had been demobilized at the end of the war, speeded the Army's reorganization. Forbidden were all gatherings except Catholic religious processions and services. Only with the written permission of Senor Serrano could meetings be held. Only if he agreed could descriptions of such meetings be published. Another blow for independent Generals and Carlists, Senor Serrano's decrees made it plain that the Falangists were winning the peace...
...Canada has been Father Roy, 40, a onetime newsboy who belongs to the same religious order (Oblates of Mary Immaculate) as Quebec's Cardinal Villeneuve. To Father Roy, 50,000 Canadian Jocists, aged 14 to 25, look for spiritual inspiration. The mass marriage was his biggest effort to date in providing it. It would, he thought, offset "all the unfavorable publicity that marriage is getting in the world's divorce courts...
Responding to the Head Man's fillip, the groggy Fair perked up last week end to produce the largest Saturday crowd to date; 256,253 paid admissions. 55,247 passes. Led by New York City's violent little Mayor LaGuardia, over 70% of the visitors used the $1 bargain tickets...
...chronicled the stages by which he went on to become a crack foreign correspondent, began to take sides violently, learned that he was "no longer a newspaper man." But Ex-Reporter Sheean made an even better living by writing slick-paper magazine stories, historical novels with up-to-date political implications, touring the U. S. lecture circuit. Last year he turned to personalized history again. Not Peace but a Sword, his firsthand account of that disastrous twelvemonth for the democracies, March 1938-March 1939, shows that he is as brilliant, as partisan a reporter as ever...