Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there were five secret sessions of the House of Commons, and years afterward it leaked out that at the first of these Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith was heckled to the verge of resigning, until he promised there would be no conscription of married men such as was later carried out under David Lloyd George and is commonplace today. Another leak revealed that Mr. Asquith was asked if Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln M. P. was a spy. No action was taken at the time, but this shady character decided to emigrate at once to the U. S. (where he later...
...were disappointments. Heinrich, the eldest, married a Hungarian noblewoman, was made a baron of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire by Emperor Franz Josef, and thereafter showed more interest in collecting art than in making steel. At 60 he divorced his Baroness and married a Berlin mannequin, who was later severely injured in the motor accident in which Prince Serge Mdivani, ex-husband of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton, was killed. The youngest, August Jr., became embittered at his father and had visions of founding an industrial empire of his own. Father August ran Son August into bankruptcy, and the son retaliated...
Late one afternoon a squadron of British bombers left their North Sea bases and flew toward the German coast. Near Helgo land Bight they sighted, through a thin mist, a German battleship, a cruiser, sev eral destroyers, a submarine. The sub marine opened fire, then submerged. A few minutes later a squadron of Messerschmitt pursuit ships came up. For an exciting half-hour the British were under fire by turns from above and below...
Four days later the British went back to Helgoland Bight and found the Messerschmitts waiting for them. In what the British called "fierce fighting" and the Germans "a terrific battle," the British (according to the British) got twelve Messerschmitts and lost seven bombers. According to Berlin, the British lost 34 bomb ers, the Germans two Messerschmitts...
Five days later the Admiralty reported that the submarine Ursula had sneaked into the mouth of the Elbe, past six German destroyers, and sunk a 6,000-ton cruiser. Since such a ship would normally carry 571 men, this feat almost made up for the loss of Royal Oak, certainly put Britain far ahead in the naval score for the week...