Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin it was admitted that Slovakia's "independent" days were numbered: sooner or later the Führer would figure out a "final solution" for the territory. A "solution" was suggested from Budapest: Slovakia should be returned to Hungary, after which Hungary would join the Reich's customs union...
...Instead of promising Europe more guns with which to commit suicide, instead of making promises to join in the destruction of civilization, it would be far more intelligent for us to bring to them the means of salvation in the form of an absolute gift. . . ." Planner Neylan pictured the world shock which such a gesture would deliver, how all hands would drop their guns to scramble for the money...
...General Labor & MaterialHandlers Union (A. F. of L.) had a closed-shop contract for work onpart of Pennsylvania's new, $60,000,000 Dream Highway (Harrisburg to Pittsburgh). This meant that farmers in Somerset County, who do spare-time work on the roads for extra cash, had to join the union and pay $15 initiation fees in order to get jobs. Six-foot, two-inch Farmer Victor Glessner organized his fellows, smashed the union's county headquarters, ran two organizers away, had another indicted for waving a pistol at protesting ruralites. Having effectively opened the closed shop, Farmer...
...elegance, never goes out without a slender walking stick, which he manipulates expertly, accenting the delicacy of his beringed hands (he has a passion for rings). His voice is soft, rich and low with a gentle, melancholy brogue. He is rather vain of his tenor, which he likes to join with his son's bass at small family celebrations...
...doesn't blame Chamberlain and Daladier for hesitating to join Russia "The Soviet policy has been ambiguous up to now, arguing collective security and deriding democracy at the same time," he stated. He suggested, however, that a Franco-British-Russian alliance would be just the thing to scare Hitler away from further demands...