Word: founded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thank you so much for your letters. . . . again I thank you for everything-I kiss you until you tell me to stop -I kiss your hands and everything. . . . Right after I got finished talking to you I went out and got a map of the U. S. A. and found Reno. I really did not know where it was located-I heard about it.... I found it was very far from Los Angeles and I think-my beloved darling-that you should not go there alone...
...same control ports and with the same machinery used to enforce the blockade of war materials bound for Germany. This machinery was greased last week by offering to neutral shippers commercial passports, called "navicerts," to show that their cargoes have been inspected in their own countries and found non-contraband. Navicerts will be signed by or for His Majesty's Ambassador in the shipper's country and will facilitate (but not guarantee) passage of the shipment through control ports. With what was intended as exquisite British tact, the British Ambassador to the U. S., Lord Lothian, observed that...
...anchor when a mine sank her-added evidence that at least part of Germany's attack was with illegal floaters. Further evidence in this direction was furnished when two mines bumped together and went off thunderously near Zeebrugge. Victim of a floating mine was a 54-ft. whale, found on the Belgian coast with a huge hole in his belly. Near by lay four German mines...
...German, Italian, Japanese ships, most of which were actually pulled off by a certain designer of infernal machines named Waldemar Potzsch, a German-born British spy. When Potzsch was arrested in Denmark, Captain Stevens had the job of persuading the Danes to let him go, even though he was found to possess plans of a large German ship...
When Gestapo agents searched his sister's home in Stuttgart and found pieces of clocks and two chisels with traces of plaster on them which exactly matched the plaster of the Bürgerbräu Keller, Elser decided to confess everything...