Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reichstag next day it was 2 hrs., 17 min. mostly of fun with patches of wrath, scorn, warnings, threats, insults, sandwiched in between the gags. With a pantomime that he seldom uses, the Führer, when he rose to speak, eyed his manuscript suspiciously and comically before he began to read. The deputies roared at that ; Dr. Goebbels' Berlin newspaper Der Angriff next day explained: "It was a small gesture, but one heavily packed with meaning...
...encirclement." Worldwide opinion, however, remained about the same as it was before either message or speech: that Adolf Hitler would not be curbed by words. But if he was strictly truthful for once in a public utterance, the world had been given a pretty good idea of where the next trouble spot was situated...
Acting as a Regency for the King in his absence will be a Council of State composed of those adults next in line of succession to the Throne. Under the Regency Act of 1937 these would be the Dukes of Kent and Gloucester, the King's brothers; Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, sister of the King; and Princess Arthur of Connaught, granddaughter of Edward VII, cousin of George VI. Queen Elizabeth will also nominally be a member of the Council according to the Regency Act, even though, as in this case, she is absent from Great Britain with...
That was enough to make Mr. de Valera's blood boil. Next day he got up in the Bail Eireann and announced that because of "yesterday's grave event" he had suddenly canceled his trip to. the U. S. to see President Roosevelt and the New York World's Fair. Simultaneously Mr. de Valera informed British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that his Government would take a "serious view" of any attempt to conscript Irishmen, whether they live in Eire, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland or Wales...
...grabbed power two years ago, grabby Señor Foianini went along, became last year Minister of Mines and Petroleum in Germán Busch's Cabinet. First Busch acts were to cancel wartime censorship, announce his intention to hold elections, introduce civilians to his Cabinet. But the next year press censorship was made more rigorous, extremist agitation was outlawed. In November groups of more than three were forbidden to congregate on the streets of La Paz (pop. 142,547). When dormant political parties recently began to stir restlessly, President Busch enlarged the Senate from 16 to 24 members...