Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have readily agreed with Mr. Chamberlain's long exposition that to fight for Czechoslovakia would not save her but only result in twofold catastrophe. First, said Mr. Chamberlain, the Czech Army would massacre the Sudetens as traitors who would be caught between them and the German Army. Second, the Germans would have enough success in the first few days or weeks of war to overrun much Czech territory where, enraged by the massacre of Sudetens, the Germans would massacre many more Czechs. Meanwhile, the German "Siegfried Line," on the French border, although ultimately it might be broken, would have...
...police also reported that their investigations indicated a second uprising was planned by the Nazis, whose real leader, a mysterious Chief "X," was still at large. While police hunted Chief X and numerous missing Nazi members, the Chilean Congress decided to increase the size of the army, buy modern military equipment...
Last week the Philharmonic-Symphony directors announced the result of their second annual competition. Again the prize went to an Evanston musician: a strapping, blond-whiskered composer named David Van Vactor. A sole honor able mention in the same competition went to Composer Mark Wessel, onetime stu dent and teacher of composition at Evanston's Northwestern University...
Canon Cardijn has repeatedly summed up JOC's program: "Every Jocist has a Divine mission from God, second only to that of the priest, to bring the whole world to Christ." French-speaking workers in New Hampshire formed the first Jocist group in the U. S. A Catholic college student of Glendale, L. I., Vincent J. Ferrari, is launching the movement on a wider front, under the supervision of an able Paulist father, Rev. Paul Ward. Four Jocist study groups have been started. Jocist Ferrari, no worker himself, last week appeared minded to modify the thoroughly radical temper...
...Amateur golf championship, played last week at Oakmont, outside Pittsburgh, most persistent arguments centred around: 1) Defending Champion Johnny Goodman and whether he could win the Amateur for the second year in a row; 2) Atlanta's Charley Yates and whether he could add the U. S. title to the British Amateur title he won last spring; 3) Professional Tennist Ellsworth Vines, onetime U. S. amateur tennis champion, and whether he could reach the final - and thereby duplicate the feat of Mary K. Browne, tennis champion in 1912-13-14, who reached the final of the U. S. women...