Word: se
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harsh awakening came at the border where waited Nazi border police. No Nazi is permitted to wear a Nazi uniform outside of Germany, but these pious Nazi youths had worn, while genuflecting before Pope Pius, the livery of Adolf Hitler-thus committing a peculiar sort of Nazi lèse-majesté. At the border the returning youths were set upon, their uniforms roughly seized and ropes tied around their Catholic middles in imitation of St. Francis of Assisi. Scattered in the scuffle were Holy Year medals, rosaries, scapulars and prayer leaflets...
...more important, Dr. Minobe has steadfastly opposed the bullying of Japanese politicians by the Army and Navy, even advised the Government that the Cabinet can constitutionally overrule the General Staffs. To revenge themselves, the patriots dug out Dr. Minobe's "organ theory" and charged him with lèse-majesté against the Emperor. They formed the Organ Theory Destruction League and warned Dr. Minobe they would destroy him unless he recanted. This he refused...
...finally emerged in a skirt and brassière of tobacco leaves-about enough to make six cigars (see cut). Later Governor Sholtz of Florida, Mayor Chancey of Tampa and many another bigwig attended a banquet in honor of a few feeble old cigarmakers who still remembered Señor Don Gavino Gutierrez...
Tampa dates the birth of its cigar industry from 1885 when Señor Gutierrez arrived in Florida to open a guava jelly, paste and preserve business but decided to back two cigar factories instead. Today by reason of its proximity to the source of tobacco supply in Cuba, Florida manufactures about 10% of all cigars smoked in the U. S. Tampa boasts 146 factories producing $20,000,000 worth of cigars, including such well-known brands as Admiration, Perfecto Garcia, Bering, Optimo, Garcia y Vega. But the biggest cigar manufacturing centre is Pennsylvania which profited most from swift dramatic...
...Kingfish" was all over the floor, red-faced, arms waving, shouting, whispering. Cried he: "I am not the only man in the United States who does not understand what this thing is all about. . . . We are being rushed pell-mell to get into this World Court so that Señor Ab Jap or some other something from Japan can pass upon our controversies...