Word: ende
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time to oppose the Germans-if we ever are going to-is when they land armed forces in this hemisphere. If things go on as they have been for the last three years, the Germans will never have to land a man. Even Napoleon had to admit, in the end, that ideas are all-powerful, and the ideas of Nazidom are penetrating throughout South America. They have the prestige of success, and the democracies offer -well, what do they offer...
...rent subsidy gifts. On July 4 he celebrated with the formal opening of USHA's first four completed projects: "Rosewood" in Austin, Tex.; "Brentwood Park" in Jacksonville, Fla.; "Lakeview" in Buffalo, N. Y.; "Red Hook" in Brooklyn. He had 41 other projects under way. By year's end he hoped to have 200 going. With his $800,000,000 authority he would have provided new, airy, sunny, low-rent housing for more than 160,000 slum families...
...instructors rated him as a very mediocre pilot but he started the war by dropping the first bombs over Aduwa. His plane was the first to be hit by an enemy bullet. He was the first Italian flier to land in Addis Ababa at the war's end. For all this Galeazzo was promoted to the rank of major and was awarded two silver medals. Il Duce began to be convinced he had the makings of a leader; the Count reciprocated by aping the postures, speech, manners of his father-in-law. When he returned home the portfolio...
...week's end Prince Paul did something more to his liking when he entrained for London to be the guest at Buckingham Palace of King George and Queen Elizabeth. The Prince and his wife, Princess Olga, insisted their visit was a private affair to see the Duke & Duchess of Kent before their departure in November for Australia, where the Duke will assume his duties of Governor General. Princess Marina, the Duchess, is Princess Olga's sister...
...been overworked by the turnstile-wooing Indians; others said he had become quaky on his pinnacle of fame. Some said he was bat-shy because one of his wild speedballs had almost killed Hank Leiber; others said Feller was just a flash in the pan. Even at the end of the season, when the Cleveland papoose wound up in a blaze of glory-fanning 18 Detroit Tigers in one game for a new major-league record and topping both leagues with a total of 241 strikeouts-the experts still hesitated to call Feller great...