Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union members. Ten days later the "strike" broke, on the ground that 13 union members had been discharged. But it was less a walk-out than a force-out. At 4 a. m. strikers scaled the yard fences, raided the plant, drove the night shift out with hardly a moment's grace to stop the machines...
Germany has been saved so often by her foreign creditors at the last moment that these International Bankers were the subject of speculation last week. Was there another rescue in them? In London the staid Financial News inferred from the presence in Manhattan last week of fox-bearded Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, that he might be organizing a rescue party. After the Nazi assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss (see p. 17). British editors raised a chorus of demands that Germany be left to her fate...
Actually the whole Press, mustered into action by club-footed Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, joined in damning Dr. Hirtsiefer from the moment Storm Troopers arrested him and drove him through the streets of Essen with a placard hung from his neck: "I AM A TRAITOR TO MY COUNTRY...
...delicate position of Chancellor Dollfuss' "Christian Fascist" Cabinet striving to hold the balance between armed Nazis and Socialists in troubled Austria. In Germany the exiled Austrian Nazi leader, leather-lunged Alfred Frauenfeld, promptly took Austria's first terrorist hanging as his text for an ominous threat: "The moment Dollfuss hangs a Nazi civil war will break out in Austria...
...made no effort to prevent Perry from winning it, 6-1. Whisking his well-timed backhand down the sidelines, he won the next two, 6-4, 7-5. After the rest period, Perry evened the match, 6-0, while Wood gathered his forces for the fifth set. The moment that settled the match for last week's spectators at Wimbledon, the moment which will be remembered as the climax of a tournament that lasted for 13 months and in which 27 countries entered teams, came in the fifth set. Perry had led, 5-1. Wood then pulled...