Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been hailed at his election as a shrewd diplomat who would be an authoritative moral policeman among Europe's thugs. He succeeded a man who had learned early in life (in sorry Poland, ironically, where he was Papal Nuncio just after World War I) to fight against extreme ideologies, and who late in life had waged that fight-particularly against Naziism-with superhuman strength. "No good Catholic" Pius XI had said "can be a Socialist"-and before he died he made clear especially not a National Socialist...
...small room containing one small bed. But, said he, it was "the size I always sleep in at home. Really, I don't have a bed half an acre large." Mr. Warner was in a warlike mood, bluntly maintained that "the liberty and freedom we obtained from fighting the British we will now have to fight with them to retain. . . . Isolation is, for us, the destruction of civilization." Author Remarque, whose All Quiet on the Western Front was the most famed novel about World War I, had little to say about World War II. Although he lost his German...
...Freedley tried to hire a substitute, the stagehands would walk out. A. A. A. A. President Frank Gillmore rallied his Thespians. His lieutenant, acting Equity President Bert Lytell, his eye on the headlines, keynoted: "We are in the same position as Poland. We have been invaded and we must fight...
...that he neither starts a fight, jumps his budget, loses his wallet, drives...
That morning, dangling his withered left hand on a shiny sabre-hilt, Wilhelm II was considering an ultimatum to Russia (sent the following day): cease mobilization in twelve hours or Germany will fight. Stock exchanges in Paris, Brussels, Berlin, St. Petersburg were already closed in panic. But the London Exchange had had business as usual that Thursday. Many a U. S. businessman waved away Wilhelm's ultimatum as "pure bluff." At 23 Wall Street Mr. Morgan & friends emerged from meeting after three hours, confident there would be no World War. They announced the New York Exchange would remain open...