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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, not all Hungary's troubles were with the Communists. In an important by-election the demonstrative Andrew Mecser, known as "Hitler's personal representative in Budapest," was decisively defeated for the Lower Chamber. Next day Führer Adolf Hitler showed his displeasure at the defeat by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Southern Relatives | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Noteworthy it was that the Deputies made a big distinction between Daladier the Premier and Daladier the War Minister. Only praise was found for M. Daladier's conduct of the war. Party spokesmen from Socialist Léon Blum to Royalist Xavier Vallat applauded the War Minister's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blank Check | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

But Daladier the Premier was another story. His numerous decrees ending press freedom, clamping down a strict (and sometimes clumsy) censorship, his bland refusals to compromise, his crushing of the great French labor unions so that now French laborers are forced to work overtime for no extra pay and cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blank Check | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

While snotty-nosed Arab children stopped scuffling in the dust to gape and wonder, a disguised Egyptian policeman recently offered to buy a mangy and decrepit old camel for $40, about 20 times its apparent value. The astonished moppets' beady eyes grew even wider as the camel's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Stomachic Victory | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Only well-known European language which even remotely resembles the difficult Magyar tongue is Finnish. Mainly for this reason, sentimental Hungarians consider the Finns "our northern cousins." Last week Hungarians were dismayed to hear of the Soviet invasion of Finland. At the same time fear of the Russians came nearer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Southern Relatives | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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