Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forget what?" celebrating German-Austrians asked each other. Suddenly crowds got the crazy idea that Premier Mussolini had presented the Italian Tyrol (pop. 613,000, of whom 230,000 are racially German) to Chancellor Hitler. Soon the big-boned, blue-eyed German troops swinging through German-Austria were greeted with shouts of "Tyrol is Free! Tyrol is Free...
Berlin's Caesar had just explicitly promised Rome's Caesar by air message that he will "never" seek to obtain any soil which is Italian today, and the Führer's entourage quickly denied the "Tyrol is Free" rumor, also started half-hourly broadcasts warning Nazis significantly not to make unauthorized arrests or seizures of property. Nazi boys & girls at this time were swarming aboard railway trains at every stop, importantly demanding to be shown everyone's passport, but travelers who refused these Nazi moppets were not harmed, though fists were shaken in their faces...
...swap of her coffee. To Italy she agreed to send $200,000 worth of her $9,000,000 crop; Italy, in return, will ship four Caproni fighting planes worth $160,000 and $40,000 worth of parts. The deal was not motivated by the recent fiasco flight of Italian seaplanes to South America...
...gestation visiting the war in Spain. Home from Spain and somewhat alarmed when friends pointed out to him that a Manhattan gossip sheetster had called Ken a "liberal-phoney," Hemingway asked Publisher Smart to explain in the first issue (on a page with Hemingway's story about Italian battalions in Spain) that Ernest Hemingway was a contributor, not an editor. By last week Ken's direction had largely devolved on Messrs. Smart & Gingrich with the assistance of Messrs. Hemingway, Seldes, John Spivak (Europe Under the Terror), Raymond Gram Swing (Forerunner of American Fascism), Critic Burton Rascoe, Manuel Komroff...
...Roslyn, a small suburban village on Long Island's north shore, live estate owners, commuters and many Polish, Italian and Negro families whose breadwinners work on the estates. In Roslyn's schools children from all these groups sit side by side. Ten years ago these schools began to go "progressive." Since tall, athletic Superintendent Frederick R. Wegner (a onetime Cornell baseball player) arrived four years ago, they have won fame outside Roslyn. But progressive education, though less costly in Roslyn than in some other towns, is more expensive than old-fashioned schooling and a year ago Roslyn taxpayers...