Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blackmail demands and the said publisher commenced his campaign in print. Due to War hysteria and the general desire to do anything to win the War, to say nothing of the Frenchman's morbid fear of such a terrible catastrophe as mass-impotence (some Frenchmen won't smoke American cigarets because they believe them to contain saltpetre), the movement caught the popular fancy and was militantly endorsed by the rest of the Paris papers. At this point Pernod Fils is supposed to have paid off the publisher, whereupon he retracted as best he could, but too late, as soon thereafter...
Smutting the sky with great streaks of black smoke, a pack of Japanese destroyers swooped down in attack formation last week upon Taku, the bustling port entrance for Tientsin and Peiping. So far as jittery, defenseless Chinese could see, Japan had simply decided to seize Taku, striking as usual without a declaration...
China has never won a modern war, but two years ago in the smoke and flame and searing Hell of Japan's avalanche against Shanghai she whelped a towering hero, General Tsai Ting-kai of the deathless 19th Route Army (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Last week on the Olympic he steamed into Manhattan and Chinatown went wild. Rich merchants had hired a suite for their hero at the tall-towered Waldorf-Astoria. They sent three planes with Chinese pilots roaring down the bay to dip and zoom in welcome. As the Olympic drew in, 4,000 jubilant celestials jammed...
Coblenz is some 60 miles from the smoke-blackened, ore-rich Saar Valley ruled by President Geoffrey Knox of the League of Nations Governing Commission (TIME, Aug. 27). Next January Saar-lander will vote in a three-way plebiscite: to 1) rejoin Germany, 2) remain under League rule or 3) join France. As the 150,000 Saar Bummlers rode off to Coblenz last week 60,000 other Saarlander mass-met at Sulzbach in the Saar. "Don't vote to rejoin Germany " they were told by Socialist, Catholic and Communist orators. "Hitler means war, misery and terror...
Outside in the sunshine pedestrians gazed perplexedly at the clanging fire engines and screaming police motorcycles converging on Crown City Plating Co. They could see no fire, smell no smoke. They wondered mildly why red-faced policemen were roping off the street for two blocks each...