Word: splintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...muster 162 seats when the Diet convenes in June. Thus his coalition strength would exactly equal the strength of the Fascist Party alone. But Adolf Hitler can probably count on the support of "The Little Man In Blue," Dr. Alfred Hugenberg. newspaper tycoon and Nationalist leader. A Hitler-Hugenberg-Splinter-party coalition would muster 203 seats, only nine short of a majority in the Diet...
...confreres is Franco Georgetti, a small knock-kneed Italian who finished a sulky last in last week's race, but failed to butt his head against a wall for losing as he did once. Obviously heir to Iron McNamara, Georgetti was once pierced by an eight-inch splinter which he sent to his father to be exhibited. He earns $28,000 per year, has a barber shave him every day of the race, frequently dines on rice, lobster and beer with Tenor Beniamino Gigli of the Metropolitan Opera Company...
Spain's Alfonso XIII ordered crown warrants issued for arrest on charges of lese-majeste of leaders of the "Republican Alliance," new and threatening federation of the largest of the 22 little Spanish "splinter parties" which have raged impotently for a Republic...