Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French high command made known that on Sept. 29, seeing that Poland was prostrate and that pressure at the West-wall could not possibly revive her, they decided to alter their basic war plan from offensive to defensive. Unknown to the Germans they prepared a line of resistance behind a line of surveillance. When the German advance came last week, only French outposts remained. These withdrew slowly, leading the waves of German troops into a zone of red-hot cross-fire from machine guns and artillery. Of some 100,000 Germans involved, the French guessed they killed five to seven...
...achievements and hatred of their opposition to Germany's excessive aspirations. It is no exaggeration to say that he assiduously courted Great Britain, both as representing the aristocracy and most successful of the Nordic races, and as constituting the only seriously dangerous obstacle to his own far-reaching plan of German domination in Europe. This is evident in Mein Kampf, and, in spite of what he regarded as the constant rebuffs which he received from the British side, he persisted in his endeavors up to the last moment. Geniuses are strange creatures, and Herr Hitler, among other paradoxes...
...scheme or plan for the propagation of a doctrine or system of principles-Webster's New International Dictionary. * When Field Marshal von Blomberg, Minister of War, married his pretty secretary in January 1938, aristocratic General von Fritsch, Army Commander in Chief, protested strongly. When both were subsequently purged, the ranks of the conservative army group were cracked...
Before the News Building was up, the fight began. The Littick family did not plan to let their Zanesville newspaper monopoly go without a struggle. Publisher of the News is Clark Beach, who retired as executive editor of the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette in 1936, was coaxed back to work by Earl Jones. Clark Beach had signed a contract form with a United Pressagent, given him a check for several weeks' service in advance. But the contract was still to be accepted by U. P.'s Manhattan office when the Litticks stepped in and bought U. P. service...
...Gallup poll indicated that he had 4,500,000 steady listeners, 15,000,000 occasional ones. At a Nazi Bund rally in Manhattan, Father Coughlin's name drew as many cheers as Hitler's. By summertime, Coughlinites in the East were organized and articulate enough to plan a parade into the "Jewish-Communist" enemy's territory, Manhattan's Union Square. Father Coughlin called them off. There were indications that he knew he had a bull by the tail. The word "Jew" appeared less often in his broadcasts, although it continued to sprinkle the pages of Social...