Word: germane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Submitted as evidence in the Manhattan trial of Fritz Kuhn, leader of the German-American Bund, was a letter from Presidential Aspirant Tom Dewey (see col. 1), in which he remarked that for Fritz Kuhn "the ashcan is the best place." The jury, after eight and a half hours of argument over whether or not Fritz Kuhn was guilty of stealing from his Bund funds, agreed with Mr. Dewey...
...Reviewing the Polish Campaign in the current U. S. Infantry Journal, Lieut. Col. Hasso von Wedel of the German General Staff gave the total number of anti-tank guns captured with the Polish Army as 120. In any well-equipped modern army, each division has at least 70 antitank guns...
...George Washington. After serving in the Russian Army for nearly 30 years (he was a lieutenant colonel in the Russo-Japanese War, later commanded the 6th Russian Cavalry as Lieutenant General in World War I), he went home in 1917 to command the armies which won Finnish independence (with German help) from the Bolsheviki. After his White Guards had run the Red Guards out of Finland, the Baron shot up 2,000 Bolsheviks left behind, in one of the century's bloodiest terrors...
...reported losses of neutral and Allied shipping from all causes totaled only 15 vessels, 65,634 tons, of which 10,086 tons was the big British refrigerator ship Doric Star which radioed from the South Atlantic that she was being attacked, was heard from no more. Probable assailant: the German raider Admiral Scheer. Germany claimed a grand total of 194 merchantmen (68 neutral, for which she was "sorry") with a tonnage of 735,768-nearly 250,000 tons a month, which would be about one-fourth the highest monthly figure reached in World...
...Break? Outside Russia last week only the German press gave even lip service to the proposition that J. Stalin & Co. were justified in cracking down on Finland. In private conversations German officers gloomed that if the Red Army is kept fighting for any length of time the Russians will obviously cut down on the supplies they have promised to send the Nazis. Adolf Hitler's own Völkischer Beobachter, observed in cold approval of Russia's course: "Strong powers are only forced to exert pressure on the weak when malicious and selfish advisers mislead a weak power...