Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Union of South Africa's aging Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog, who, with a Bible in his pocket and a bandoleer over his shoulder, fought for three years against Great Britain in the Boer War, guessed that his people would not want to fight for Britain in...
South Africa's Boers, however, are passionately anxious to maintain control over South West Africa. They would rather see the world's richest gold and diamond mines, the Rand and Kimberley, exploited by Britain than raped by Germany. The Boer leader who gets on best with Britain is...
> In Nazi Germany tuning in on foreign broadcasts has always been frowned on; for the last three weeks it has been treason. But right up to zero hour German listeners to U. S. short-wave stations kept writing in, asking for pictures of Benny Goodman, requesting that their names be...
> Over the frequency of Warsaw's Radio Station 1, as German forces surrounded the city, came strange, un-Pole-like reports: "The sky is glowing from scores of huge fires raging beyond control. . . . Complete anarchy prevails. . . . Bands of robbers began plundering stores and breaking into private apartments. . . . Many used...
Three incidents that set radio quaking: 1) Week ago Tuesday night A. P. Correspondent John Lloyd spoke over NBC from Paris at 8:30 EDST (1:30 a. m. Paris time). "The situation is now definite," he was explaining. "There are no more doubts. ..." when suddenly he was drowned out...