Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went down with the Lüsitania. Scion Vanderbilt has dabbled in Rhode Island politics since he became a State Senator ten years ago. His mother, Mrs. Paul FitzSimmons of Newport, is Republican National Committeewoman. Accepting the nomination, Politician Vanderbilt promised he would seek neither higher office nor a second term. His opponents: Democratic Governor Robert E. ("Fighting Bob") Quinn; Walter E. O'Hara, operator of Narragansett Park race track (which Governor Quinn closed last year), running on a "Square Deal" ticket...
...before noon on the fatal day, with German troops actually in motion toward the Czech border which they were to cross at 2 p.m., Il Duce in Rome rang up Chancellor Hitler at Berlin and they talked for 45 minutes. The Führer had received that morning a second appeal for peace from President Roosevelt, an appeal to which the only reply was an anti-Roosevelt tirade delivered that same evening to an audience of 175,000 Germans by No. 3 Nazi Goebbels. The results of the Mussolini-Hitler conversation were flashed to London where they brought the high...
British statesmen were concerned this week because Adolf Hitler had let four days go by without replying to Franklin Roosevelt's second appeal for peace (see above), especially since in Berlin a high Nazi had remarked: "Our Führer took cognizance of the American President's reply to his yesterday's telegram, but no answer is likely to be forthcoming, else there will be no end of the messaging back and forth...
...with the Soviet Union, the Czechoslovak Army occupied the Teschen area in Poland, with about 200,000 population. Thus, last week Poles and Hungarians did not regard Czechoslovakia as a virgin land which Germany had just been permitted to rape, did not regard themselves as rapists eager for a second and third outrage. On the contrary, fervent Polish and Hungarian crowds shrieked in the streets for what they were convinced was "Justice!'' Poland, powerfully armed, last week had 500,000 of her 1,500,000 soldiers lined up to invade Czechoslovakia. The threat of Joseph Stalin fortnight...
...went to Europe and wrote a series of searing attacks on Hitler and Mussolini, his standing was ace high. They deplored his sneers at "Mahatma" Sinclair and his "Brainstorm Trust," reveled in his fury at Huey Long, cooled off again when he began taunting the New Deal about the "Second Louisiana Purchase." Today, "Old Peg" is in bad odor among the intellectuals because of his attacks on the C.I.O., his open redbaiting, his disrespect for Franklin Roosevelt- ''mama...