Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ahead, engaged the Ethiopians alone. By the time the Italian advance was straightened out three separate battles were going on at once without coordination or contact. By 11 a. m. March i the Italians were in full rout, their dead piled high around their guns. Bugle calls for retreat were drowned amid savage cries of "EbalgumeI Ebalgume!" Behind the fanatic black warriors came their women brandishing long knives to mutilate the wounded. Killed were two of the five Generals, 4,600 Italian officers and soldiers. Two thousand were wounded, 2,000 taken prisoner. General Baratieri was court-martialed, finally acquitted...
...should go the way of the yen, pound and dollar, it is certain that Indonesia would increase her sales. But is it certain that the yen, pound and dollar will not dance on down an insane spiral with no bottom? And should Dutchmen join in such a dance? Brave Retreat. In The Hague last week Premier Colijn introduced his new Cabinet thus: "We will defend the guilder against devaluation! The people of The Netherlands must maintain their spirit and assist the Government in fighting the Depression under adverse circumstances!" This sounded as if the Premier had an aggressive program...
...Romanovs were butchered, Little Otto's uninspiring father, Kaiser Karl, was allowed to slip away and die on the Island of Madeira. Last week the double eagle of the Habsburgs screamed again. From Vienna a member of the Government rushed post haste to Castle Steenockerzeel in Belgium, the retreat of exiled "Kaiser Otto." All the Government asked of "His Majesty" was that he should behave with procrastination and discretion. Would he please be so discreet as not to return to Austria next week, by which time the Government would have handed him or be about to hand...
...they behaved themselves decently within the city limits. This easy-going relationship lasted a generation, and the O'Connor tradition did not die when he did in 1924. Such latter-day bad men as the late Homer Van Meter and "Machine Gun" Kelly found the city a comfortable retreat. But the old reciprocity of the O'Connor regime lapsed. In little more than three years St. Paul has been the scene of three major kidnappings, and last year Attorney General Cummings singled it out as the "nation's poison spot of crime." Belatedly last week this hooligans...
...Ribbentrop the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on Special Mission-the special mission being to see what Britannia has to say about Germany's naval demands. Last week Ambassador von Ribbentrop, after a quick dash to London, was able to tell the Realmleader in his Bavarian retreat that His Majesty's Government seemed ready to capitulate, if Herr Hitler would make a slight amendment in his demand which could be palmed off to the British public as a concession...