Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schacht had been dispatched to England: 1) to persuade those interested in getting the Jews out of Germany to pay a "ransom" in the form of increased purchases of German goods; 2) to stave off Britain's threat to "fight Germany at her own game" for the trade in Central Europe and South America; 3) to get Britain to buy more from Germany than she has been doing...
...morning in September 1937, the leader of the Paris colony of White Russians, General Eugene Karlovitch de Miller, who at the time was secretly negotiating to send 20,000 men to fight with Spanish Rightists, stepped out of his office. He was never seen again...
...blackfaced Caesar tries his best, now & then, to seem degenerate and willful. The strong man, Ferrovius, loudly debates whether to fight back at his oppressors or practice Christian nonresistance. The lion remembers to growl. The martyrs try to look downtrodden. But to no avail. Androcles fails to transmit a serious social message, for the good reason that it is not a serious play. Shaw's Androcles is a whimsical fellow. His Caesar is a playboy. His frisking lion is fed more gags than Christians. His martyrs are as exhilarated as though they were going to see a show rather...
DEMOCRACY IN THE MAKING - Hugh Russell Fraser-Bobbs-Merrill ($3.50). Savory history of the Jackson-Tyler fight against the United States Bank...
Citing the dangers of what he described as a fight by undemocratic "Isms" for control of the Western Hemisphere, Landon emphasized that "we will always unite against outside aggression...