Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi Protestants, led by Rev. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, were barred from the German radio, intimidated into displaying such milk & water slogans as "The Church Must Remain The Church." On election eve Catholic Hitler stepped to the microphone and told 20,000,000 German Protestants how to vote. "A church that is unable to support the state is just as worthless to the state," he shouted, "as a state that does not protect the church is to the church...
...invaded by all the minions of industrial and financial destruction and fear. At last we are at Armageddon. All the merciless forces of annihilation are arrayed for the final battle against the American people. If we lose this battle, the Government will be overwhelmed with irretrievable disaster. * * * On the eve of this decisive battle Franklin D. Roosevelt is the Nation's Commander in Chief. * * * His order is not to watch and wait; it is not to retreat; his thunderous, thrilling command is 'Forward, march.'" In the spirit of those words the Congress and the President worked shoulder to shoulder. Perhaps...
Having fired this opening gun, "General" Farley prepared for a South-wide radio address from Memphis on the eve of the Tennessee-Alabama-Arkansas voting. Senators Robinson of Arkansas and Harrison of Mississippi were ready to make a whirlwind campaign in behalf of Repeal on the strict basis of party loyalty...
...Loeb backed E. H. Harriman against Hill (backed by Morgan) in the struggle for control of the Northern Pacific. Jacob Schiff, dining in London dur ing the Russo-Japanese War, met Korekiyo Takahashi (now at 78 Finance Minister of Japan), and on the strength of an eve ning's conversation became Japan's banker, sold $200,000,000 of her bonds in the U. S. (biggest international loan prior to the World War). Since then K. L. has floated leans for Sweden, Holland, Austria, Argentina, for Antwerp. Paris. Marseilles and many another state and city...
With discipline relaxed the pilots amused themselves like college footballers on the eve of a Big Game. One restless fellow laid hold of Marco, the squadron's donkey mascot, painted zebra stripes on him. Others held a mock election for the recipient of an ivory plaque carved with the figure of an eagle clutching the Italian flag in its mouth. The plaque had been sent by a girl in Rome to "the pilot who has no sweetheart." The pilots elected Lieut. Cadringheri, and all autographed a picture of one of the squadron's seaplanes to send...