Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helped settle the long, bloody Kohler of Kohler (plumbing) strike in Wisconsin five years ago, has calmed many another row before it reached the headlines. Now sixtyish, he is a husky six-footer with a lined, full face, a kindly smile, a soothing voice. "If all priests were like you, I'd never have left the church," he was assured by Labor's late, famed Mary Harris ("Mother") Jones, at whose grave he preached in 1930. "The best trouble shooter Labor has," Madam Secretary Perkins has said of him. One of his good friends...
What they said was that had Führer Hitler struck as the bomb of the German-Russian Pact exploded, he would have begun the war with the advantage. Planted like a great mine before an entrenched position, prepared as stealthily as sappers burrow underground, it was in place, loaded, ready to go the moment the button was pressed. The great offensive in the War of Nerves mounted to its climax. The pressure on the Poles to give way, on Great Britain and France to give in, was at its height. Down through the Balkans, through Hungary, Rumania, a flank...
...reportedly let Berlin know of Litvinoff's fall five days before it came, and, day after it came, the Hamburger Fremdenblatt significantly said: "European politics now have emerged once for all from the unfruitful era of unbounded ideological conflict. . . . Realists now have taken over the leadership from idealists like Litvinoff and Eden...
...condition suggested that more than high politics egged Stalin on. Not theories, which could be changed, or political opponents, who could be liquidated, but shortages of shoes and rolling stock made approaches to Berlin, or Berlin's approaches to Moscow more palatable. Pieced together, reports looked like this...
...best peasants could look forward to another forcible "transplanting" to the East-a trip likely to make the trek of migratory farmers in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath seem like a quiet vacation. At worst they could expect another hurricane like the uprooting of the peasants in 1930, when 5,000,000 families had their property grabbed. Up to last week what happened to them had depended on one man-Joseph Stalin, who had always been held up to them as the friend of the toiling masses. Now it also depended on a second-Adolf Hitler...