Word: duringer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although greater in tonnage and ships than the Franco Navy, the Loyalist fleet early in the war lost control of the strategic Strait of Gibraltar and with it the mastery of the Spanish waters. Reasons: 1 ) when the war started sailors on Loyalist ships killed most of their experienced officers...
Next day the lecture was reported in every big newspaper in the world. Reason : the quiet, didactic speaker was Joseph Stalin, and his well-behaved class was the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Although nothing like the rants which Herr Hitler broadcasts to the world...
But the Flemings constitute half Belgium's population. Increasingly conscious of their numbers, they have demanded-and got-more political power. As fast as possible they have been pulling the nation away from its French moorings. During the World War many Flemish districts were pro-German. Now many Flemings...
The great W. C. Fields, whom Charlie (Bergen) consistently outgagged, whether Fields stuck to the script or not during their five and a half months together on the program, really wanted to demolish Charlie (not Bergen). There was a genuine, jealous glint in the old fellow's eye when...
Before he went to Manhattan, in the first of what the radio business believes will be a series of big-show visitations from the Hollywood studios during World's Fair time, Edgar Bergen made his will. In it he remembered Charlie, leaving $10,000 to the National Society of...