Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goose-stepping and dramatic searchlight and spotlight work, Adolf Hitler was made to appear more than ever what in fact he is-the Teuton Messiah. He had a Message this year bolder than ever before. In the final build-up of tense emotion, 400 new German heavy bombers and fighting aircraft of all sorts literally darkened the sky above Nürnberg, made windows rattle with the bellow of their motors and brought gulps to German throats. Then, with every radio station in the Fatherland broadcasting his words, with every German who had a radio set instructed to be listening...
Referring to Stalin's recent execution in Russia of Zinoviev (né Apfelbaum) and Kamenev (né Rosenfeld) as abettors of Stalin's enemy Trotsky (né Bronstein), Dr. Goebbels snorted: "Every inner Bolshevist struggle is a family fight among Jews!* . . . We can discuss this question frankly only in Germany because elsewhere in the world it is a dangerous matter to mention Jews. . . . May the world act before it is too late...
...nearly two months old but Madrid had only just been able last week to get the Government's armed proletariat organized with enthusiasm around 66-year-old Premier Francisco Largo Caballero ("The Spanish Lenin") and in a very real sense the Government had "just begun to fight...
...Marine Minister Indalecio Prieto splashed out in Madrid papers the grim fact that in Madrid there were no more potatoes, fresh eggs or butter, scant meat or sugar and hardly any milk or olive oil. To these challenges the proletariat rose as 20,000 enlisted to fight as Red Militiamen-in a day and crowds kept milling around the Spanish Lenin's office, causing Largo Caballero to emerge from time to time on a balcony with clenched fist upraised and shout, "La victoria es nuestra! Victory is ours...
...Juan Asensio. The Premier told him that the Red expeditionary force which fortnight ago failed to take the Island of Mallorca from the Whites was returning to Madrid last week via Barcelona, strengthened by 5,000 of that independent city's Red Militia who had been hired to fight for the Government by sending to Barcelona a quantity of gold bars from the vaults of the Bank of Spain. With the Premier watching, Red artillery opened up a terrific fire on the Whites, young Red militiamen flung themselves recklessly to death in a mad assault on strong White positions...