Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reduction in the appropriation in itself created an emergency."* He said half the $725,000,000 voted by Congress in February would be gone by April 1, with about 3,000,000 clients still on WPA's rolls. To make the money last through June, 400,000 workers must be dropped in April, he said; 600,000 more in May; 200,000 more in June. The hardship on these 1,200,000 would be felt by their 3,800,000 dependents, not to mention other millions on WPA's "waiting list...
There were other, less mystical, reasons why Herr Hitler grabbed the Almighty's mantle so precipitately last week. In one fundamental sense it was a simple bank-robbing act. Germany, which must buy important raw materials outside her borders, needs real money. Germany reports about $29,000,000 in gold left (some esti mates: as high as $200,000,000). Czecho slovakia, an exporting country, had $80,000,000 in gold in its national bank, enough to offset Germany's adverse trade balance for a few months, and about two and a half times that much in foreign...
...special sessions, and King George hurried to London from a week-end in the country. A faction led by Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was said to feel that Dictator Hitler could not be stopped this side of Turkey, that Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Greece must inevitably be his if he wanted them. But Lord Halifax stood up to declare that neither Poland, Rumania, Turkey nor Greece should be allowed to fall in German hands. Meantime, the Cabinet considered plans for a Stop Hitler conference of anti-dictator countries...
...Warsaw, anti-Nazi students held demonstrations and the Polish Government, having long and magnificently sat on the fence between warring dictatorships and democracies, was represented as having finally concluded that it must now make a choice-which way it still did not know...
...Both sides," it read, "unanimously expressed the conviction that the aim must be to assure calm, order and peace in this part of Central Europe. The Czechoslovak State President . . . trustfully laid the fate of the Czech people and country into the hands of the Führer of the German Reich...