Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith had turned up at Brockville, Ont., and State and local authorities were tumbling over themselves for the glory of bringing back the fugitives. Dr. Smith in his hey-heyday had bought a $20,000 plane wherein to lug promising athletes to L. S. U. and on week-end pleasure trips This was the craft in which L. S. U.'s president was to be flown home to face charges. Inasmuch as the flying "football beef" (as the students called it) had only four seats and required a pilot, only one officer could go along if both...
...President received and signed the bill two hours before the end of fiscal...
...Just as long as [the Middlers] do not rebel," cried Professor Pitkin, "they will be trimmed, sucked dry and then thrown away. They will sink into the ranks of the poor, and America will end as ancient Rome ended...
Though many thought this terse style highly unlike the author of Mein Kampj, and very much like the Political Section of the German Intelligence, the story did much to make the French jittery. They frankly expected a Danzig coup last weekend. The week-end passed without one, but early this week so many alarming rumors (and war preparations) had spread over Europe that Adolf Hitler apparently decided that the hour was not quite as propitious as he had thought. An "authorized" (but unidentified) Nazi spokesman delivered an extraordinary announcement, prompted by Neville Chamberlain's statement to the House...
Chief week-end worry of wily Foreign Minister Josef Beck, returning from his country estate after a brief holiday, was the recruiting of a Danzig Army and the building of fortifications in the Free City. One Nazi stratagem last week seemed to be to take over the city little by little, ousting first one Polish official and then another, eliminating this Polish function and then that, until finally there would be no more Polish officials in Danzig. At some unspecified point in the Nazi eliminations the Poles were prepared to intervene...