Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ancestor, Frederick the Great. At Potsdam, capital of German Monarchism, the Stahlhelm, Monarchist organization, came into collision with the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, Republican organization. Immediately there was a free fight in which the Monarchists were defeated and forced to flee. But in the middle of the scrap a tall, lanky young man with large, heavy fists began to use them with such good effect that the Republicans went down before him like ninepins. But the support he received from his comrades was scanty and soon discretion overcame valor and he too fled. Only some hours later was it known...
...Prussian Diet fair fraus and frauleins stopped a fight among the male members by jumping into the melee of fists. The scrap started when a Communist was accused of working a 13-year-old girl until four o'clock in the morning...
Tariff. "The best way to get relief from the high costs of living is to scrap the vicious Fordney-McCumber Tariff Bill the Republicans put over. I hope to see a general reduction of all taxes...
Subsequently, Sir Edward saw the agitated Imperial Chancellor, Dr. Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, who said that Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation just for the sake of the word "neutrality," just for the sake of "a scrap of paper." From that moment the phrase, "a scrap of paper," became an Allied slogan, fuel for the fire of warfare. It was Sir Edward Goschen who, in reporting the Chancellor's words, wrote himself into history, because the British Empire went to war to uphold the sanctity of inter national contracts and for other very good...
...hardly be said to have determined Britain's attitude toward the violation of Belgium's neutrality by the Germans in 1914, but he played an important part when he indignantly protested against Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg's assertion that the Belgian Treaty of Neutrality was "a scrap of paper," and when he asserted stingingly that Britain would defend Belgium because she had contracted...