Word: foes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They fight the foe together...
Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weiss), escape artist extraordinary and implacable foe of spiritualistic fakers, promised his wife that if it were possible for him after death to communicate with her on Earth, he would do so. A code message was agreed on. In New York, a medium named Arthur Ford said that Houdini's spirit had sent him these words: ROSABELLE ANSWER TELL PRAY ANSWER LOOK TELL ANSWER ANSWER TELL. Mrs. Houdini signed a statement that this was in her husband's code, but later seemed un convinced that she had actually heard from the dead magician. Last month...
...been swept back into office by the mightiest tidal wave of popular opinion ever expressed in the United States. That he was the man of the hour was undeniable and no one tried to gainsay it. Instead, all: Republicans and Democrats, Socialists and radicals, the mighty, friend and foe alike, joined in tribute to the man and his magnificent victory. It was his minute, his moment of glory...
This week Premier Milan Stoyadinovich of Yugoslavia was reported so "frightened" by the Hitler-Ciano accord that he was about to throw over his country's close ties with France and recognize Italy's conquest of Ethiopia. Since Yugoslavia is the "historic foe" of Italy, such news from Belgrade rang like victory in Rome...
...biggest man in the German Government, 225-lb. Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring, won an apparently decisive victory last week over his strongest and most bitter foe, 125-lb. Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, club-footed Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment...