Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dubinsky made it clear that he was not joining in the hue & cry for C. I. O.-A. F. of L. reconciliation, felt that he had been too optimistic about it before,wanted the I. L. G. W. U.'s action to speak louder than words for peace. Left-wing charges that A. F. of L. was too reactionary, that many an old-line A. F. of L. leader was a visionless labor boss, he brushed aside-all the more reason, said he, why the progressives should be back in A. F. of L., to moderate such tendencies...
Chapter 2: The Dastardly Plot. On the night of November 8, at 9:21 p.m., just eleven minutes after Adolf Hitler left the Bürgerbräu Keller in Munich, a bomb exploded, killing eight, injuring 62, just missing the little man who wasn't there...
...Then he left for Switzerland, dropping his tools in Stuttgart on the way. Being a worrier, however, he went back to Munich and entered the Bürgerbräu Keller (one of the best protected places in the world) several times in the night of the 7th to listen to the ticking...
...room in which Count Csáky stood represented only a small part of the detailed workmanship and great wealth that had been poured into Hungary's impressive Houses of Parliament. Standing on the Rudolph Quay in Pest (i.e., on the left bank of the Danube, the flat half of Budapest), this 19th-Century, Gothic-style building ranks as one of the largest legislative palaces of the world. It cost $8,000,000, covers four-and-one-half acres, has a dome 315 feet high. It was intended, when built, to show Hungary's importance, but after World...
...first day of the war, the women in Paris, by a spontaneous and almost common accord, left their hats m their closets and sallied forth bareheaded...