Word: duringer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chile, in the midst of Navy war games, declared it would be strictly neutral in the sale of its murderous nitrates and essential copper. Chile was far and away the biggest South American exporter during World War I.
Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, famed "Black Eagle of Harlem," who drilled Ethiopian youngsters with wooden guns during the Italo-Ethiopian War, arrived in Paris to make a "comprehensive study of the international situation" as a war reporter for the Harlem newssheet, the Amsterdam News. "I am," said he, "ready to...
April 28. In Berlin Hitler said to the Reichstag: "During the whole of my political activity I have always expounded the idea of close friendship between Germany and England. ... I am now, however, compelled to state that . . . war against Germany is taken for granted in that country. . . . The basis for...
> "For the valve by which the aquatic animal closes the ear, man may substitute rubber stoppers or plugs of oiled wool or cotton. . . . This precautionary measure also lessens the occurrence of the various forms of otomycosis [fungus disease] that are frequently observed during the swimming season."
CBS depended largely on its own, crisis-trained staff for foreign coverage-lean, precise Ed Murrow in London, little INS-Man Thomas Grandin (who looks like Goebbels) in Paris, dignified William L. Shirer (who looks like H. V. Kaltenborn) in Berlin. The indefatigable Kaltenborn himself, CBS's one-man...