Word: fetched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What kind of program would fetch U. S. listeners? The question agitated the Propaganda Ministry in Berlin. Then one of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels' henchmen had a bright idea. Forthwith to the U. S. via short wave last week went the news that Germany would pay toll on cabled requests for Nazi radio talks on desired subjects. Quick to publicize the German offer was the U. S. press. The Manhattan tabloid PM, which mortally hates & fears Adolf Hitler only a little more than it does Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh, exhorted its readers to take advantage of the Nazis...
...docked last week in Manhattan told of seeing "6,000 or more" Italian prisoners (probably an exaggeration, for these Italian prisoners must have been taken before the Battle of the Marmarica) aboard the Cunarder Queen Mary in Bombay, en route to prison in Australia, whence the Queen will soon fetch 16,000 more Anzacs for the Middle East. In Bombay also they saw the He de France, idle; at Cape Town, the Queen Elizabeth, at anchor...
...into the water pipes, the Department of Health set up vaccine clinics to help immunize 300,000 Rochesterians against typhoid. The Telephone Company called up its 95,000 subscribers, warned them to boil their water. The Rochester & Lake Ontario Water Service Corp. offered pure water to all who would fetch...
...tear-gas squad rushed to the Plaza, but was warned that one whiff might kill scores of the diseased mob. A messenger ran to fetch Minister of the Interior Miguel Culaciati, who was attending a funeral. At noon Minister Culaciati received an exhausted, coughing delegation, promised to look into the matter of the vaccine...
...child should hold his mother's chair at table, fetch his father's hat, never shout upstairs, always knock before entering a bedroom...