Word: morely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prohibition, an experiment noble in purpose, was about to begin. Midnight on Jan. 16, 1920, it went into effect. Five months later, guns barked and drilled plump Diamond Jim Colosimo dead as a herring in his own restaurant. The murder was a clue to the sudden bustle in the underworld...
A more likely story was that the two sovereigns wanted to let Adolf Hitler know that they would defend their neutrality, and their frontiers, together. The concentration of Nazi troops on the Belgian and The Netherlands border and the recent tone of the German press and Foreign Office toward the...
"Paper Protests." "When the toes of small powers are trampled upon by England, Germany expects them to do more than take it with a smile," declared a Nazi Foreign Office spokesman.
"The Germans, having informed The Netherlands and Belgium that an attack of extreme violence was scheduled to start before November 15, asked what would be the attitude of the Low Countries in case of mass flights over their territory with the possibility of more or less forced landings and more...
Germany's first move, no doubt, would be a mass air attack aimed at all the Dutch airports, especially those along the Channel which might serve any power coming to The Netherlands' rescue. The Dutch Air Force contains not more than 300 planes, two-thirds of them old...