Word: helpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Western powers in the Near East, were on the outs. The Nazis, in fact, wanted it believed that His Majesty was so exasperated by British "broken promises" in the-Near East that hereafter Arab nationalists in general and Ibn Saud in particular would come to Rome and Berlin for help and guidance. Although a discreet silence was kept over what, if anything, Führer Hitler promised Khalid al Hud and vice versa, it was news simply that they had talked. When the German Foreign Office mouthpiece, the Deutsche Diplo-matische Politische Korrespondenz, announced on the heels of the meeting...
...them-young Gavrilo Princip, Trifko Grabezh, Nedelyko Chabrinovitch-had arrived three weeks earlier from Belgrade, sent by the Ujedinjenje Hi smrt (known as the "Black Hand" Society, sworn to reunite Bosnia and Serbia). They had bombs and revolvers to murder the Archduke, and during the three weeks, with the help of a local conspirator, Hitch, they had recruited and armed three Sarajevo youngsters to aid in the attempt...
...Czechs, 45,000 Slovaks were brought into the Reich to gather it. Italy promised to send 37,000 katzelmacher (cat-eaters, so called because Bavarians suppose starving Italian field-hands steal and stew German cats). Every German woman was urged to go out on the land, help gather in the crops. It was estimated that at least 500,000 women of 60 years or more are doing farm labor in the Reich. Members of the Hitler Youth movement were commanded to volunteer their services. By drafting students, women, aliens, Nazis, with every available laborer under arms or building fortifications east...
...help finance its strike against Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner (now in its seventh month), the American Newspaper Guild two months ago thought up a novel scheme. Strike sympathizers were asked to adopt strikers, paying $5 a week for maintenance. Last week the Guild placed its 89th strike baby. The adopter: CIO Chieftain John Llewellyn Lewis, who already has two children of his own. The adoptee: 22-year-old Ann Tonchick, good-humored, unglamorous onetime clerk in the Herex's bookkeeping department, who has never seen her foster father but is all set to call him "Pappa...
...event of a daylight air raid on Paris, employes of the Louvre department store will stream across the Rue de Rivoli, not into shelter but into the Louvre Museum. Their job: to help the museum staff remove, pack and convey to safety the world's vastest collection of art. Obviously unable to do it unaided are the museum's guards, who number 405 and have 900 rooms to cover...