Word: happening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bolshevik males who happen to dislike Journalist Radek and the small fringe of whiskers around his round face have called him "that ugly little Jewish monkey." Once his name was mentioned by defendants in the recent Plot-Against-Stalin trial, farcical though that was, the Soviet Commissariat for Internal Affairs set secret police to see what they could "get" on Radek. In Russia such agents seldom fail on such assignments. The object in this case was to link Radek with Stalin's enemy, Trotsky...
...open to the public. The reason why General Goring was thus dawdling in Vienna turned out afterward to be because of an elaborate ruse devised by the German Minister to the Austrian Republic, scheming Franz von Papen. It was his idea that Goring should as if by chance happen to appear on the Vienna station platform just as Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg was about to depart for Budapest to attend the funeral of Hungarian Premier Julius Gombos. The Chancellor would then be obliged, as a matter of courtesy, to invite Goring into his private car, and when they alighted together...
...been in President Conant's place, and had known exactly in advance what would happen as to weather during the morning, would you have dispersed the crowd and disappointed at least 10,000 people...
...Constitution is What? In discussing what will happen in India after the elections, so great an authority as Viscount Halifax has written of the Indian provinces, "We cannot say, for example, how cabinets will be formed." Nevertheless they will be formed, under the guidance of the Marquess of Linlithgow, and the new Cabinet Ministers will be Indians with greater powers than they have ever had before, subject to the intervention and control if he sees fit of the Viceroy of India. Large though the new electorate is, another way of looking at the matter is that only...
...have to be called in to bolster the staff when a half a dozen different games are going on in the vicinity. For this reason students or others are called in the work out the charts of the games, keep the records, and generally help out if the reporters happen to miss a play...