Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome-Berlin Axis, a formal military alliance seemed to make no change in Europe's balance of power. But what the Foreign Ministers had announced by implication was that Italy would automatically come to the help of Germany in case of trouble, and vice versa. With the fate of the Free City of Danzig already at issue between Germany and Poland, the announcement in effect placed Italy's full force behind Germany's demands...
...dusty Prince Albert and stovepipe hat, is unmoved by Maximilian's liberal protestations, his break with his selfish landowner backers, his sincere offer to make the President his Secretary of State. And when the U. S. finally frightens Napoleon into abandoning the puppet emperor to his fate, Juárez makes a choice between principle and pity, sends Maximilian before a firing squad...
...outside world. For in the next few weeks enough cocoons will have come to market for the silk industry to estimate the size of the 1939-40 crop. And upon that size depends: 1) the immediate outcome of the, tightest U. S. silk squeeze in history, 2) the fate of certain speculators, 3) whether the cost of silk stockings on the leg is going to be higher this summer...
Latest big von Papen intrigue took place in Austria, where he was sent as Ambassador to prepare the way for Anschluss. His big moment came when he arranged the Hitler-Schuschnigg conference at Berchtesgaden which sealed the fate of independent Austria. Since then he has been living on his estate in the Saar, where he rides, fishes, plays tennis. Last winter he delivered several innocuous lectures in Sweden...
Last week fate struck back at the two-ton wife-killer. Children were tossing peanuts across the moat to Bill. Reaching for a weakly-tossed one, Bill greedily leaned forward, teetered, landed pomph on the concrete floor of the moat...