Word: evicting
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...spreading tales of terror, creating incidents and sounding false alarms, the outline of the coup could be foreseen. Danzig would have an "internal uprising." The eight members of the Danzig Senate-all Nazis-would declare the Free City absorbed into the Reich. At that moment police and soldiers would evict the Polish customs guards on the area's borders and take over. If the Poles decided then to march into Danzig, they, and not the Nazis, would be placed in the position of being the aggressors...
...third year in the Reich's custody. He was reported in good health but morose, convinced he would not be free before the collapse of Naziism. The Government, which has offered him release on condition that he refrain from preaching, gave the screw a turn by threatening to evict Niemoller's wife and seven children from his old rectory. Two thousand members of the Dahlem congregation approved a protest declaring: "This is not . . . Christian. . . . We consider Pastor Niemoller, though he may be imprisoned, as our rightfully chosen minister...
...lackadaisical Broadway character (Edward Ellis), who runs a seedy hotel for vaudeville actors. After a while, the exuberance of Jimmy Durante and his five-man orchestra get on the nerves of the lady next door (Edna May Oliver). She owns the hotel, but when she tries to evict the vaudevillians she runs up against Shirley. Shirley captivates the old lady by singing Swing Me an Old Fashioned Song...
...strikers declined medical aid, huddled in miserable triumph as cold winds whistled through the broken windows of the heatless, lightless factory. . . . Heat came up after two days, but negotiations to end the strike remained frozen. Like Governor Murphy, sympathetic Governor Homer refused to risk bloodshed by sending militia to evict the sitters. As General Motors' officials had first done, Fansteel's President Robert J. Aitchison stood firm on his property rights, refused to discuss a settlement until his plant was evacuated. Thrice rejecting Governor Horner's pleas for a conference, he said he was perfectly willing...
Knudsen promised that G. M. would keep up payments on the group insurance policies of both non-strikers and strikers. Still grimly determined to evict sit-downers, however, G. M. renewed the court proceedings which it allowed to lapse when the Flint judge who had granted it an injunction was revealed to be the owner of $219,900 worth of G. M. stock (TIME...