Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Retired Admiral Okada was picked by Japan's great Elder Statesman Prince Saionji because he was just enough of a patriot to satisfy the fanatic Army & Navy, yet had enough common sense to make Japanese bankers & businessmen feel that they would not be crushed by utterly ruinous taxes to...
The shining exception among Author Lewis' labored tales is his brilliant The Willow Walk, a first-rate story in any company. A small-town bank teller with a talent for dramatics wanted to commit a perfect crime, and did. He constructed the myth of his twin brother, John, hermit...
Britain's famed "thin red line" of Empire goes little farther than Quetta, lying beyond the Suliman mountains which wall off India's rich valley of the Indus. The vulnerable door in that wall is the Bolan Pass. With its back to the door is Quetta; beyond it...
Despite the alarmist tone evident in news despatches from Europe, no immediate crisis is likely. No matter how many men Hitler may press into the German army, no matter how large an air force he may have created, even so mad a fanatic as he cannot seriously contemplate taking on...
In his upward climb to Mesta's presidency, Engineer Iversen became a shrewd salesman with all the hitting power of a forging press. Not only can he sell his steelmaking machines to ordinary prospects. At least once he sold a buyer who had already let the contract to a...