Word: generale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the strike of the United Automobile Workers (C. I. O.) had easily broken the Abie's Irish Rose record held by General Motors' strike (44 days in 1937), and gloomy Chrysler dealers were wondering if it would run as long as Tobacco Road. Adamant sat big Tough Guy Herman L. Weckler, 49, almost six feet, almost 200 pounds, Chrysler's formidable, nimble-minded operating vice president. Adamant too sat bigger Tough Guy Richard T. Frankensteen, 6-feet-1, 220 pounds, onetime University of Dayton tackle, aggressive, teddybear chief...
...typical German "information" offensive, designed to find out what the French command will do in given circumstances rather than to take an objective now. Before the great Ludendorff push of 1918, the Germans conducted innumerable attacks of inquiry, compiled a thorough textbook on the behavior of various generals commanding various parts of the Allied line. They learned, for example, that General Gough's army was disposed strongly in its forward or battle zone, but weakly in the rear; that Lieut. General Butler's forces were organized with most of their strength to the left; that the British Buffs...
They agreed on a general program, and on specific features of it, so significant that they made the week's biggest war news. After they were through talking, the Allied Supreme War Council, headed by each country's chief of State and chief of war, held a meeting to ratify the Simon-Reynaud agreements. Within three months, warring Britain and France had reached greater financial and trade solidarity than they reached in three years last time. * Gone was any German hope of splitting the Allies asunder...
...Telegraph explained, when suspicions of German intentions seemed confirmed by reports of troop concentrations, King Leopold summoned his ministers to determine the country's atti tude. Guided by "the views and wishes" held by General van Overstraeten, they decided the following: "1) If the German forces attacked Holland but did not come south of Nijmegen and the Rhine, Belgium would not move; 2) if the German advance were directed south of Nijmegen and especially across Dutch Brabant, Belgium would order immediate general mobilization and declare that her own security was threatened." The German Ambassador in Brussels telephoned Berlin...
...subjects of foreign origin and half of Hollanders. But the Volksraad has exceedingly limited powers. Only recently it acquired the right to initiate legislation. The real power rests in a tropical palace at Buitenzorg, outside Batavia, where lives His Excellency Jonkheer A.W.L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, the Governor General. Aside from being able to tell such high-sounding potentates as the Sultan of Solo or the Sultan of Jokyakarta how to run their States, he can also veto any measure that a rebellious Volksraad might pass. Moreover, he himself can "pass" his own ordinances. Appointed to his present...