Word: home
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...downfall is sure. The statement as a whole was preliminary notice, to be more thoroughly and forcefully worded this week, that the U. S. did not and would not soon recognize Czecho-Slovakia as part of Germany. Minister Wilbur Carr was told to close his legation in Prague, come home. But other branches of Franklin Roosevelt's Government had to face facts. They took steps which not only recognized Adolf Hitler as CzechoSlovakia's new ruler but dealt him backhand blows...
Court. His pretty wife, Mildred (Riddle), is his boyhood sweetheart from La Grande, Ore. She tends their two children, Mildred (9), and Bill Jr. or "Bumble" (7), with only the aid of a colored house man named Rochester at their roomy, rented home on the edge of the city. Besides work he likes golf, bridge, wild life and sunsets...
Governor Fitzgerald's labors were interrupted fortnight ago when influenza bedded him at his home in Grand Ledge. There last week a heart attack ended the labors of 54-year-old Frank Fitzgerald forever...
What Next? Where Germany would next plant her military boots was the next question. The Nazi majority in Lithuanian Memel were agitating last week for a "home in the Reich," but that was small change. More significant was the Nazis' tolerance in letting Hungary grab Carpatho-Ukraine. A smart stealing-casino player does not mind an opponent's getting a trick if he has the card that will steal his whole pile...
...surprise, their spirit broken since Munich anyhow, crowds greeted the first armored cars in Prague's streets in dumb despair. Later in the day they grew defiant. Whistles and jeers greeted each new squadron. Groups sang the Czech anthem and wept openly. Some shouted "Pfui! Pfui! go back home!" But the only physical resistance Herr Hitler's tanks met was a volley of snowballs. Down in Prague's Jewish district there was terror. Two lovers shot themselves, a couple jumped from their apartment window. By week's end suicides had mounted...