Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their hurry to finish up everything as fast as possible, Russians have worked themselves into a state of five-year-planic. Two months ago Joseph Stalin sent his hard-boiled henchman, Comrade Lazar Kaganovitch, to tell the frenzied subway builders of Moscow that they were going too fast. "I am displeased with so much rush work!" roared Comrade Kaganovitch. "Also Comrade Stalin is displeased. Take things slower and do everything well...
...allies Largo Caballero had beguiled the pinkish Socialists of onetime Premier Manuel Azaña and the sectional patriots of perennially seceding Catalonia. Señor Lerroux first smashed the Catalan revolt (TIME, Oct. 15). Last week he turned on the pure class war provided by Largo Caballero. As fast as Lerroux jailed anarchist committees, new ones arose. Revolt kept ducking for cover, popping out in a new place, like a prairie gopher. It made soldiers and police trigger-nervous but they remained stanch for Lerroux. At week's end they had jailed Largo Caballero, silenced the rebels...
...France public resentment at the ease with which the murders were executed forced the reorganization of the Doumergue Cabinet, the retirement of Minister of the Interior Albert Sarraut. Working fast and furiously to save their reputations, the French secret police, assisted by the Jugoslav police, had uncovered by the week's end, the following "facts": Alexander's assassin, hacked to pieces by police sabres and bullets, was a fat young man named Petrus Kalemen, later said to be Vlada Georgieff. On his arm was tattooed the motto and device of a Mace donian secret society known as IMRO...
...consecrated wafer, 300 priests and monks distributed it in the vast crowd. Impressed by this gigantic act of faith, Cardinal Pacelli exclaimed: "This is heaven!" Afterwards, efficient nuns briskly served the children with hot chocolate and cakes. When the four Cardinals beheld this, they too wished to break their fast. Thereupon hot chocolate and cakes were served them on their thrones. Next day was Columbus Day, celebrated in Latin America as ''The Day of the Race." In honor of the Eucharistic Congress the customary soccer games and races were called off. The morning soon grew hot. At mass...
...just passed through a Manchester express, a westbound freight, the doomed local. He held up a cattle train behind the local to let a fish train pass south. Said he: "The fish train was the key to the movements in my mind." Up from the south roared the fast express. Mr. Bloor got the fish train out of the way. "I was quite relieved in my mind...