Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Minister's speech. After that he called a conference of his most trusted henchmen and his highest ranking Generals. The Berlin blackout was ordered deepened, with arrests threatened for the smallest infraction. Berlin also halfway expected the bombers. But there was still some talking to be done. Emerging from Herr Hitler's study long after midnight was a polished, suave, smooth-faced man who for years has been one of the Führer's confidants. He was Dr. Otto Dietrich, the Nazi Party's Press Chief. For years Dr. Dietrich has delivered annual lectures...
Soviet Demands. The war-ready Finns took pride in moving with snail-like slowness at the crack of Joseph Stalin's demand that they send a delegation to Moscow (TIME, Oct. 16). Instead of coming by air, as the panicky envoys of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have done, Finnish Chief Delegate Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi rolled comfortably into Moscow by train one morning. At 2:30 p.m. Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov received U. S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt who brought from President Roosevelt a personal message of "earnest hope that nothing may occur that would be calculated to affect...
...rough for U-boats too, that the cruisers were therefore safe. That was a mistake. All three of the cruisers were torpedoed and sunk, with a loss of 60 officers and 1,400 men. Long afterward it was learned that a single submarine, the U-9, had done the job alone, launching six torpedoes, and had escaped without a scratch though fired on by both Hogue and Cressy...
Another difficulty the British have had to overcome-they have done so with amazing rapidity-is their slow rate of plane production. It was in 1936 that Britain finally woke up to the appalling state of her Air Force. At the end of last year Britain was producing only about 200 planes a month, but by last week they had almost achieved a rate of 1,000 per month, bade fair to overtake the German rate soon...
...band prefers one sort of rhythm--a style of jump that starts very softly and lightly and ends by tearing the all gently down. Fats himself plays fine rhythm and occasionally takes off on solo flights that are just as good as anything he has ever done. Plus the fact that he puts on a killer of a show all during the evening, busting all the remaining vest buttons with a little demonstration on the art of trucking at the end of the show...