Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carving of Czechoslovakia, again a visitor, declared as he emerged from the Presidential presence that the U. S. is dreadfully short of arms, ammunition and equipment for a needed standing army of 400,000 men; that bottlenecks in industry must be eliminated to ensure war supplies. "And I know what I'm talking about," added Mr. Baruch, who headed the last War Industries Board. He proposed a special one-shot tax, payable now, to finance Preparedness...
...prisoner known as Gorkin or Gómez, a revolutionist of several aliases, made most news in court. "Did you know any agents of the Nazi Gestapo?" asked the prosecutor, who was trying to prove that the P.O.U.M. was not really Marxist but Fascist. "No, I did not know any of the Gestapo," said Revolutionist Gómez, adding with the authentic Spanish touch, "but if I had known one I would have killed...
...Listen well. We know a Fascist triumph would signify our total extermination. All right, then, before parceling Spain, exterminate...
Almost certainly Hitler and Göring think air power will soon have made sea power obsolete, but they know the British Admiralty is full of crusty heroes ready to swear that "By gad, Sir, none of your dashed bombers has ever sunk a modern capital ship and they haven't taken Madrid. The Navy is still the Navy, Sir, and England is still England." In that atmosphere, which seems very favorable to modern Germans, an air pact conceivably may be signed. Its drafters will have to take into consideration first the quantitative air strengths of the great powers...
Neither the Vatican nor Archbishop Sheptytsky has pretended to be grateful for this exercise of Cuius regio. They well know that the Polish Government wishes to crush Ukrainian nationalist tendencies, centred in the churches, and also to stir up religious bitterness among the Ukrainians. In the latter aim it has succeeded. In a pastoral, suppressed by the Government but circulated (in English) in London and Manhattan last week, Archbishop Sheptytsky admitted that the destruction of Ukrainian churches had "cast the odium for what has transpired on the Apostolic See....A new abyss is being opened between the Eastern...