Word: fortresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goodyear's President Paul Litchfield the Trade Commission's findings were just another problem in his currently harassed life. For the past fortnight Mr. Litchfield had been living in his Akron, Ohio plant, besieged by striking rubber workers. Emerging from his industrial fortress for the first time in two weeks, President Litchfield found time to declare: "We will appeal the decision of the Federal Trade Commission to the Federal courts. Were it permitted to stand, the decision would wipe out a widely used trade practice under which a substantial proportion of the country's total retail business...
...Sandringham the Prince of Wales, with news services sending out advance canned dispatches in which he already figured as King Edward VIII, jumped into a car with the Duke of York, drove at a fast clip for Windsor. Technically Windsor is not a "palace" but a "fortress" and, because of this, bulletins on George V's condition were not posted there as they were at Sandringham House and at Buckingham Palace...
...Venezuela, seeking safety from the wrath of a people that sexy old codger had oppressed for more than 20 years. Anyone who knew Venezuela knew that Gómezes do not give up without a fight. The last time a serious revolution threatened Venezuela, exiled revolutionists raided the fortress of Willemstad, sailed off with most of its small arms...
...matter how few the casualties, one person almost certain not to survive the Ethiopian war has been Lij Yasu, "Child of Jesus," the 38-year-old onetime Emperor of Ethiopia. Deposed by Haile Selassie in 1916, Lij Yasu has since 1926 been a closely guarded prisoner in the fortress of Gara Mulata, well fed, comfortably lodged, but handcuffed night & day to the wrist of a guard. Lest Italy should release him, make him a puppet emperor, it was announced weeks ago by the Emperor that "Child of Jesus" had been moved to the shores of southernmost Lake Rudolf...
Even the oversized telescope of General de Bono could find no massing of Ethiopians near Makale. Scouts reported many a party of them moving toward Amba Alaji, a natural mountain fortress overlooking the trail to Dessye and Addis Ababa. As if to keep up interest in their dreary little war, Italians talked darkly of a pitched battle to come...