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Word: disunion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leningrad began last week to take on some of the dignity of predictions. Nazi strategists, political as well as military, were said to feel that the greatest folly would be a German invasion a la Napoleon which would lose itself in vast Russia, but that internal Russian forces of disunion would overthrow the Bolshevik leaders once the Russian people knew Dictator Stalin had been unable to hold Leningrad. "The Cradle of the Communist Dictatorship." and such parts of the Baltic regions and the Ukraine as would fall to an even moderately successful German drive. A preliminary Nazi move, much mooted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fuhrer's Crusade | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

With this solid backing the Premier of China celebrated his 50th birthday, and the peak of his career thus far, by hurling a kindling speech at his excited friends and countrymen: "My Government has overcome the twin menaces of Communism and Chinese disunion. We can wholly dismiss any insinuation that some exterior Great Power is needed to help China maintain order within her own borders. Forward, fellow citizens, to revive our old national traits of self-reliance, of self-government, temperance and self-consciousness. Show the world that the Chinese people can do great things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chiang Dares | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...found it, he never set it down. A rapt listener to "the Master'' in the drafting room at night was a young cub named Frank Lloyd Wright. The panic of 1893 smashed the partnership of Adler & Sullivan. Like Gilbert & Sullivan, neither did as well after disunion. From 1880 to 1895 Sullivan designed more than 100 buildings. In the 29 years left of his life, he built only some 20 more. One reason given is liquor. Another is that he could not compromise himself artistically for a client. He built a Methodist Episcopal Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Master's Master | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...said the Jew. "The Jew is to be classed just as any other group, because, instead of being a solid bloc, they are in disunion. There are good Jews and bad Jews; rich Jews and poor Jews. . . . The tragedy is that every Jew wants to be a leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tolerance Trio | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...Mother of Revolutions." Generalissimo Chiang got his start in Canton under "China's George Washington," the late sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen. It was from Canton that Chiang marched north to conquer all China-partly with the aid of Russian and Chinese propagandists trained in Moscow who fomented disunion in his Army's path. Marching on to victory, the Generalissimo paid scant attention for several years to the seeds of Sovietism which sprouted and grew strong among Chinese in his wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: CHINA Generalissimo's Last Straw | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

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