Word: launched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Close-lipped Chancellor Dollfuss remained grimly silent but his official Wiener Zeitung roundly declared: "No reasonable observer of German events believes in the official version that Captain Roehm and his accomplices were just about to launch an armed revolt. It is unthinkable that an experienced soldier like Captain Roehm would spend the last hours before the outbreak of a revolt indulging in orgies in an obscure villa without even guarding its doors...
...splitting national anthems. Mussolini linked his arm with Hitler's and led him toward a waiting motorboat, speaking German with fair fluency to a guest who speaks nothing else. As a disciple should. Chancellor Hitler drew back to let the world's No. i Fascist enter the launch first, but II Capo del Governo again threw his arm around Guest Hitler's shoulders, urged him forward in Italian: "Prego!" ("I beg you!"). With a dozen police motorboats roaring ahead to chase away jay-rowing gondolas, the official launch sped for Venice between two squadrons of Italian...
North Bay, Ont., June 7--Dr. A. K. Dafoe, guardian of the Dionne quintuplets, tonight won one of his hardest battles in the struggle to launch the five tiny babies on the way to a sturdy girlhood...
...alarmed. Turkish police came out and demanded that he go ashore with them. Indignantly he refused, and handsome, swarthy John Ioannis Mousouris, master of the Maiotis, hurried down from the bridge to protest volubly in Greek. Sadly puzzled and somewhat dismayed, the Turkish police retired to their launch...
...Turkish police paid a third visit to the Maiotis. Samuel Insull was in his pajamas. They ordered him to come with them as he was and prepared to carry out their command by force. As a concession they finally allowed him to dress. Then they put him in their launch and carried him ashore in a pouring rain. They arraigned him in a Turkish court. An interpreter was found who knew little Turkish and less English. The court debated: was Samuel Insull a Turkish citizen? No. Was his crime political or military? No. Therefore he should be detained, handed over...