Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment of the mine's explosion his moves have been deliberate, with a curious quality of being at once audacious and careful. Although he screamed on schedule at the French, British and Polish Ambassadors respectively, nevertheless uncertainty, postponements, reversals, entered Germany's history: a speech at Tannenberg was reannounced, then canceled; the Nurnberg Congress of Peace was reannounced, canceled. At the other end of the Axis Benito Mussolini seemed dawdling or lethargic compared with his hyperthyroid partner in Berlin. He seemed pensive compared with the democratic statesmen of Paris and London; no omens came from the Capitol...
...March, Stalin made a big speech before the Communist Party Congress, lashing out against the democracies. Stalin's Ambassador reportedly let Berlin know of Litvinoff's fall five days before it came, and, day after it came, the Hamburger Fremdenblatt significantly said: "European politics now have emerged once for all from the unfruitful era of unbounded ideological conflict. . . . Realists now have taken over the leadership from idealists like Litvinoff and Eden...
...throat, before slipping its poppet, breaking a cradle, careening down the ways. The wife of a shipyard employe was killed, 20 were injured. Caught napping, the band burst frantically into Rule, Britannia. Resolutely Lady Wood hurled a bottle of wine after the retreating ship, shouted her 50-word speech above a din of cries and crackling timbers, burst into tears...
...Balkans did the great offensive of the war of nerves find a soft spot in the defense. In Rumania, King Carol made a speech of surprising firmness, declaring that Rumanian frontiers could not be changed. In Yugoslavia, Croats and Serbs gave promise of ending their feud...
Overtime is only a figure of speech in Germany these days. Recently Marshal Hermann Goring appointed Efficiency Expert Paul Walther to investigate the coal industry: the men were digging less coal on ten-hour shifts than they had previously dug on eight. Working hours for men have been pushed up until two twelve-hour shifts have been reached in some industries. Men returning from work on the Siegfried Line say that they were driven 15 hours a day-from dawn to dark, with two short rests...