Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house painter with a Hitleresque mustache who calls himself "national commander of the Knights of the White Camellia." Messrs. Campbell and Deatherage decided to set up a sort of Hitler to whom they would play Göring and Goebbels. For their Führer they chose sympathetic Major General George Van Horn Moseley, who retired as commander of the U. S. Army's Fourth Corps Area last year with a blast against the New Deal, followed up with frightening speeches about the dastardly Jews, warnings that the time might come when the Army would have to "take over...
...fast but had not been allowed to use airspeed indicators. The German planes he saw were not so elaborately made as U. S. craft, could not haul bombs across the Atlantic. He told so little (scarelines in newspapers notwithstanding) that one Congressman privately asked the Air Corps' Major General Henry Arnold, who was present, whether the witness was holding...
...Said General Arnold...
...flood a large part of the country. In the north countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, not only have there been increased expenditures for arms, but the four small nations have long been banded together as the Oslo Powers to present a united front to the world in general and to aggressors in particular. The idea was that where the voice of one small nation might not carry far, the voice of four would...
...treaty, one of the most binding ever signed between two supposedly equal powers in Europe, provides that Germany and Italy will: 1) consult each other on all questions of "common interest or touching the general European situation"; 2) lend each other full "political and diplomatic support" to eliminate threats to either nation; 3) give each other military aid on "land, sea and air," in case either becomes involved in armed conflict; 4) set up permanent Axis commissions to deal with problems jointly...