Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent them on their way back to Poland, tough and oligarchic Poland retaliated overnight by rounding up a few thousand Germans. Nazi Germany promptly "mediated" the differences. Not only does Poland run its show at home with brutal efficiency, but it has an Army that would fight at the drop of a hat, and that gives Germany something else to think about. The Polish Army would now be no match for the Reichswehr, but at least it could rob Führer Hitler of another of his bloodless conquests. Moreover, Poland has an air force of 1,500 planes...
...desire to inform you that from this day on I have decided to drop the reading of TIME. Experience again proves to me that for unprejudiced and accurate information Social Justice is the magazine...
Last month Hungary's Premier Bela Imrédy, speaking at his home town of Baja, declared he had not one drop of Jewish blood in his veins, showed baptismal certificates of his grandparents to prove it. This was his answer to a widespread whispering campaign that the Premier, author of severe anti-Semitic bills introduced recently in the Hungarian Parliament, was himself part Jewish...
...hearings, Acting Chairman Hatton W. Sumners, who had borrowed a cough drop from Northwestern Mutual's President Michael J. Cleary, tossed Witness Cleary a new box of cough drops, commenting: "Nobody can say this committee can be bought...
...German-American Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Coast pointed out that German purchases of U. S. dried prunes and apricots had dwindled from 33% of the total exported in 1929 to 8.8% in 1937. And the lard dickerings demonstrated how U. S. farmers are suffering from the drop in German trade. In pre-Hitler years Germany often bought as much as 30%, of U. S. lard exports; last year Germany bought only 7%-and last week U. S. loose lard was at the lowest price in over four years...