Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example, the article in the March 13 issue on William Randolph Hearst. All that detail may be important to those connected with the publishing business, but for persons like myself it is enough to know that: Hearst steps down...
...took less than 48 hours last week to send all these facts and factors over the dam. The people who own most in the world are supposed to know a good deal about what goes on in it. Obviously Herr Hitler caught them napping, for in Berne, Amsterdam, London, New York, markets fell last week and kept falling as big investors hastily unloaded in something very like a panic. If they had not known what Chancellor Hitler was going to do last week until he actually did it, how could they tell what he was going to do next...
...British and French secret services did not know all this they were not worth their pay. That they did know it and did report it was made fairly evident at week's end when French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, badgered by Parliament for being taken by surprise by Herr Hitler's coup, blurted out that he had known something was in the wind as early as the Saturday before the Wednesday of the grab. He also said he had reported it to the British...
...Warsaw, anti-Nazi students held demonstrations and the Polish Government, having long and magnificently sat on the fence between warring dictatorships and democracies, was represented as having finally concluded that it must now make a choice-which way it still did not know...
Rumanians well know the "consequences." German troops could either march in through the mountainous districts of the Carpatho-Ukraine seized by Hungary last week (see p. 20) or Germany could back Hungary in an attempt to seize Transylvania, which until the Treaty of Trianon was a part of Hungary. Better yet, Germany could grab off Hungary first and then move into Rumania herself...