Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Should Adolf Hitler desire to absorb Liechtenstein, he could meet little resistance, for the country has no army, no defenses and no military alliances. It sided with Austria in the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, but its 81 soldiers did not reach the front in time to fight. In 1914-18 Liechtenstein was neutral. Liechtenstein is 15 miles (beeline) of the upper Rhine Valley. It is a flag stop on the Paris-Budapest railway. The scenery is unbeatable; on the east side of the valley the Alps rise 8,441 ft. at the top of the Naafkopf. The biggest village...
...religious denomination may buy broadcasting time on the two big radio networks. Why? Because, in general, the chains fight shy of religious controversy; because, in particular, Columbia Broadcasting System was embarrassed seven years ago by the rabble-rousing rise of blatant Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin as a paying speaker on its hookup. Instead of such firebrands Columbia today maintains an innocuous interdenominational Church of the Air, while National Broadcasting Co. gives time to the Federal Council of Churches and the Catholic Hour run by the National Council of Catholic Men. Judged by fan mail, however, none of these programs...
...Louis, in defense of his world's heavyweight title; from Harry Thomas; by a knockout. Prior to his fight with Max Schmeling last December, Thomas had knocked out 44 of his 56 opponents, had himself never been knocked out. Significance of last week's fight, which only 10,468 Chicagoans paid to see because any April fool could foretell its outcome; Schmeling had made Thomas dizzy (technical knockout) in eight rounds; Louis made him dizzier (bona fide knockout) in five; and Louis meets Schmeling for the championship in June...
...many questions as they have answered. How did it happen, for example, that the parties in the U. S., unlike those of the European democracies, were not identified with a particular section or class? How was it possible, Bryce wanted to know, for two great nationwide organizations to fight as bitterly as did the Republicans & Democrats over the Hayes-Tilden election, without plunging the country into civil...
JOURNEY TO THE WEST-Darwin L. Teilhet-Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). Picaresque, 593-page novel about a high-pressure, radical Manhattan adman, stranded in Seattle, who gets entangled with quacks, radical slickers and adventuresses, in a gory, last-scene fight saves his soul and his future father-in-law's brewery...