Word: signal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late of the French Supreme War Council, charged that the demilitarized Rhineland "safety zone," established by the Versailles Treaty and confirmed in mutual amity by the Locarno Treaty, has now been partially militarized with 40,000 Germans equipped with machine guns, armored cars, bomb and flame throwers and a signal corps. "The only way to live at peace with a nation possessed of such a passion for violence," said General Niessel, "is to confront it with force equally strong...
...slain "martyrs' " friends, principally Royalists and Fascists, were waiting for him. As Frot mounted the stairs to the appeals court, surrounded by his friends, a Royalist shouted the one potent word, "Assassin!" It was the signal for pandemonium. Martyrs' friends and assassin's friends joyously joined battle, screaming, slugging, slapping and pulling. Frot's friends shrieked "Liberty! Liberty!" Somebody got one good swing at Frot just before a slim, dark youth ducked under Frot's guard, seized his wiry black beard and all but yanked it out by the roots. Republican Guardsmen rushed in, hustled...
Twenty-five years ago, Saturday was the signal for most prosperous foreign males in Havana to get drunk, moderately or otherwise, until time for business Monday. They had no place whatever to play golf, tennis or other sports which their
...means excessive, since a heavy outflow of gold would quickly pare them to more normal proportions. To Chairman Eccles the track looks clear as far as he can see. Moreover, he disagrees with Banker Aldrich about the air-brakes. As soon as he spies a red-signal around the Recovery bend, he can: 1) Double reserve requirements, a move which would wipe out some 90% of the present excess. 2) Order the Reserve Banks to sell some of their $2,400,000,000 load of Government securities. To pay for all these bonds the member banks would have to draw...
...have been in 1935, but today the rising might of Germany is more clearly visible. The European balance of power is being further & further upset, and this is the traditional signal for British policy to shift so as to find itself at the new fulcrum. In exalted London circles of birth, finance and politics last week novel and weighty things were being said. One of these was that, sooner than most people think, His Majesty's Government may be reluctantly obliged to aid in slaking German thirst for more territory. In the city, London bigwigs were to be heard...