Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author: Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League (Samuel Untermyer, president). Place: Manhattan. Medium: 175-ft. net banners to be towed behind airplanes over holiday crowds at beaches, mountain resorts. Wording: YOU PAY FOR NAZI SPIES IF YOU BUY NAZI GOODS...
First to break the tape was Boston's 119-lb. Francis Darrah, a seasoned distance runner at 25, whose time of 2 hr., 8 min., 14.6 sec. was the fastest ever made on foot up the mountain. Six minutes later came Paul Donato, another Bostonian, who (like Darrah) had eaten a pound of rare beefsteak for breakfast. Loudest cheers went to 45-year-old Clyde Ormsby of Colorado Springs, oldest entrant in the race, who finished seventh. Called upon by broadcasters to say a few words over the radio, Mr. Ormsby was in a sorry predicament. The patrolman...
...Little mountain-locked Switzerland, with a tradition of neutrality rooted four centuries back, kept out of the last war and is determined to keep out of the next. At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, France, Switzerland's neighbor on the west, assured her that her neutrality would be kept inviolate. Last week she received the same assurance from her other two neighbors, Italy and Germany, Europe's major nonLeague powers...
Principal Japanese fear was that the flooding Yellow would reach a long arm southward to the Yangtze, itself within five feet of overflowing and not yet at its mid-summer peak from melting mountain snows. Between them the two swollen rivers could completely swamp the Japanese offensive on Hankow, which was not going too well in any case. Early in the week the invaders had taken a giant stride nearer Hankow by capturing Anking, capital of Anhwei Province. When they ordered the U. S. Government to clear the 200-mile stretch of the Yangtze from Wuhu to Kiukiang for their...
...Czechs enjoyed independence under their own rulers from the tenth to the early 16th Century. At that time they gradually were subjected to Habsburg domination and in 1620, the Czech nobles were wiped out at the Battle of the White Mountain. Over a thousand years ago the Slovaks had been beaten into submission by the Hungarian Magyars. Through the centuries these peoples, like the Poles and the Irish, kept alive their national culture, agitated for liberation. The World War and Woodrow Wilson gave them their chance. Three Czech patriots actually achieved the nation's independence: gaunt, bearded Philosophy Professor...