Word: saws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviets jerked the anti-Nazi motion picture Professor Mamlock from daily showings at the Russian World's Fair Pavilion, substituted Lenin in 1917, blandly explained that this was a routine change of program. At Coney Island, Park Policeman Thomas O'Connor saw Mrs. Ray Brodsky sitting on a piece of paper. When he warned her this counted as littering the beach, she called him a "Hitler." Brooklyn Magistrate D. Joseph de Andrea dismissed the charge but warned Mrs. Brodsky against calling anyone "Hitler." Prison wardens in New York, who feed inmates 51 ounces of meat a week, observed...
...Actium, in 31 B. C., while spellbound land forces stopped fighting to watch, Octavian's Roman fleet struck the Eastern fleet of Antony and Cleopatra, until Antony's soldiers saw their leader abandon the fight, sail off with the Egyptian queen...
...Yugoslavia, Italy, looked a little more real in discussions of U. S. neutrality. There had been no absorbed interest in Europe's war so long as it was a word-war. U. S. citizens looked upon it with impatience, with disgusted weariness, a few with alarm. Or they saw it as an obsessed absorption with insoluble problems, pushed the whole conflict out of their minds. Or they made no distinction between the antagonists, thought of them struggling for the same ends by different- and generally deceptive-means. Or they went South American or Russian (see p. 35), viewed with...
South America's reaction to the conflict was almost entirely economic, almost entirely bullish. Businessmen, confident that no South American nation would be actively involved, remembering the mints made in the last War, having experienced no real fighting except the Chaco War and revolts in Brazil, saw that their continent would be the world's tuck shop. South America would sell at hot prices all the raw materials which had lain fallow and unproductive in the past decade. War would wipe out with one black stroke all the hobbling economic nostrums of dictators-depreciated currencies, frozen gold stocks...
...original proposal for neutrality legislation." The New York Herald Tribune practically lined up with the British and French, and the Times went the whole way: "At last there is a democratic front. . . . Inevitably we are more deeply engaged in the conflict." The columnists reverted to type. Dorothy Thompson saw the world revolution coming nearer, Westbrook Pegler went yah! at the Communists, General Johnson was for letting Europe blow itself up, and Heywood Broun, hitherto a believer in the democratic front, began preaching pure pacifism. Said Eleanor Roosevelt: "Peace may be bought today at too high a cost in the future...