Word: pistoleer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statesmen of Europe hurried toward Geneva this week French battalions poured into the $300,000,000 forts and for the first time they were fully manned. At some points French and German troops were only a pistol shot apart. The price of a Bank of France share fell from 8,700 to 8,200 francs. On orders from Australian League Council President Stanley Melbourne Bruce, the League of Nations' French Secretary General, M. Joseph A. Avenol, telephoned Berlin, inviting Realmleader Hitler to send a German representative to Geneva for the crucial session of the Council...
Having thus conjured up the horrid vision of uncounted millions of Bolshevik Frenchmen and Bolshevik Russians leagued suddenly against the German Nazis, Realmleader Hitler with pistol-shot rapidity spat out what he was doing about all this. At that very moment last week German troops on his orders were dashing into the Demilitarized Rhineland. He ignored the illegality of this deed under the Treaty of Versailles and maintained that the Franco-Soviet Treaty had voided the Locarno Pact, hitherto the main bulwark of peace in Western Europe...
...interested in the weather. After hanging around town for three days, he asked his way to the home of Dr. Wilhelm Gustloff, physicist at the Davos observatory. Bustling Frau Gustloff ushered him into the study. When the Doctor rose to greet him, David Frankfurter whipped out a pistol, sent five bullets crashing into his body. Wilhelm Gustloff died instantly...
...first of a series of "correspondence" matches, the pistol team shot against Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, Virginia Military Institute, and the University of Missouri last night in Memorial Hall. Because the results are determined by mailing the scores, it will be several days before the victors of last night's contest can be announced...
...fourth year of its existence, the Pistol Club can boast of an enrollment of 70 students, twice as big as last years. Although under the direction of Captain Lawrence B. Bixby, the organization is not officially connected with the Military Science department...