Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Precisely at this moment, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon handed the Prime Minister a message just received from the Führer, and Neville Chamberlain, after reading it, went on with emotion in his voice...
...Herbert Benjamin's Communist Unemployment Councils submerged their differences, merged with lesser organizations into the present Alliance. The membership (now claimed 400,000. mostly in Eastern, Midwestern and Pacific Coast cities) continually shifts as clients go on & off relief. The leadership is also in constant flux, at the moment includes such active but seldom mentioned figures as John Spain of New Jersey, Lee Morgan of Ohio, Al Brockway of Washington. Dependent for dues on citizens who have no surplus cash, the Alliance is chronically short of money. Treasurer Benjamin last week reported that in the past 14 months...
With 1,500,000 German troops mobilized at that moment in various parts of the Reich, Orator Hitler began by recalling his offer to reduce the German Army to 200,000 men if each of the other Great Powers would accept this same limitation, and he reminded Europe that his offer had been without takers. He recalled that Germany made a peace pact with Poland, a naval limitations treaty with Britain and renounced any claim to Alsace-Lorraine, shouted: "It is not one Führer or one man who is speaking-it is the entire German nation...
...recent books of documentary photographs as Archibald MacLeish's Land of the Free (TIME, April 25), Evans' selection in his own book is many-sided, disinterested, clinical. The photographs are uncaptioned yet arranged to be looked at in order. In each the camera has caught the essential moment, memorized in detail some significant things: the early morning light on hundreds of back yards in an industrial city; four sour people on a Bronx bench on Sunday; a pompous Legionnaire with waxed mustaches, looking brave...
Catching Curley at the psychological moment when he was writing the speech which he delivered to the Democratic State Convention Saturday afternoon, the Cambridge quintet attempted to persuade the Democratic gubernatorial candidate to take a specific New Deal platform and push it through the Convention...