Word: rushing
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Another professional move was by Benito Mussolini who has been rushing every kind of Italian aid to the White forces battling Madrid. IL Duce kept this up until 48 hours before a great mass meeting of French radicals was about to force the hand of Premier Leon Blum with demands that his Cabinet rush similar aid to the Spanish Radical armies. At this psychological moment Premier Mussolini had his son-in-law Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano announce Italy's adherence, with reservations, to the French Cabinet's round robin, not to aid either side in Spain (TIME...
However, it must take a powerful moon and the sunshine of Sunny Italy to rush the March of Time so that children conceived in the first week of August may be born in March. Is Mussolini responsible for that change also? HUGH H. HOFFMAN...
Keynoter of the three-day shindig was young Senator Rush Holt of West Virginia, apostate New Dealer, who delivered a 90-min. harangue in favor of all Father Coughlin's"16 points" of Social Justice, net of which is that cheap money is the key to a rich life for all. Orator Holt evoked boos for Representative John J. O'Connor (who last spring threatened to kick Father Coughlin from the Capitol to the White House), Herbert Hoover, the du Ponts, Carter Glass, WPA, the Federal Reserve System. He won cheers for Thomas Jefferson. Father Coughlin. Social Justice...
...defiant insurrection against the A. F. of L.," fortified his charge by reading the dictionary definition of "insurrection" and comparing C. I. O.'s Chairman John L. Lewis to Mussolini, "the unscrupulous and arrogant dictator of whom it has been said he suffers at times from a rush of blood to the head, an extravagant rage, a surge of destructive wilfulness. Like a volcano he spouts flame and burning lava, spreading poisonous gases over the countryside...
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