Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plymouth, chairman of the Sub-Committee of the International Committee on Nonintervention, early last week succeeded in pushing through that body Britain's long-discussed plan for quarantining the Spanish War in Spain. Soviet Russia finally acquiesced. Main features of the plan were closing of land frontiers, greater vigilance of ships going to Spain, stationing of neutral observers in big Spanish ports, counting of foreigners fighting on either side, eventual withdrawal. There was a chance that this agreement actually was an agreement-for three days. Then, as has often happened in both factions, the Soviet Union soon found "practical...
...gobble the nation whole. There are some 3,000,000 Germans, "racial comrades" of the Führer, within the nation's boundaries. Fully three-fourths of the population speak German. Reich Field Marshal Göring recently published in his National Zeitung a map of Greater Germany, prepared by Reich propagandists for school use, which pictured practically the whole of Switzerland as belonging to the Reich. The Swiss frontier is "the boundary of the internal separation of the German people," announced Göring's newssheet and claimed Switzerland's 3,000,000 Germans as "exiled...
...from contributions, 5.6% from endowment and invested funds). There remained a net deficit of about $2,200,000. Part of that deficit was paid by the United Hospital Fund. Part of it just piled up like an Ally's War debt. And it would have been millions greater if the institutions had been run on a business basis, taking into account depreciation ($11,835,000), tax exemptions and free water ($10,560,000), interest charges on the investment...
...conferees are 33-year-old Professor Albert Speer and Chancellor Adolf Hitler. They determine in these all-night conferences the details of mystic, dreamy Adolf Hitler's pet building project-the reconstruction of Berlin, the remaking of a not-too-beautiful city into a worthy, magnificent capital of Greater Germany...
...clever, waspish, Jew-baiting Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, who is also Nazi district leader for Greater Berlin, was attributed the latest outburst. Cafés, cinema houses were searched for Jews. Down the Grenadierstrasse and Dragonerstrasse-both prominent Jewish streets-ran several hundred "Aryans" bent on pulling Jews out of their stores, painting their shopwindows with insulting signs. Schoolteachers lectured children not to associate with little Jews. On countless shopwindows appeared such inscriptions as "Jewish swine," "Out with the Jews," "Avoid this Jew," "The Jew- Our Sorrow!" "Jew, get out!" Whole streets were roped off while Jewish blocks were...