Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though others who know him claim he is not pro-Fascist, merely pro-British, demanded to know if there was going to be "censorship." Promised the Prime Minister: "There will be no interference with the British Press by that department." He announced that its peacetime function would be to spread British propaganda overseas...
Last week German troops began to pour into the Tatra Mountains near the Polish frontier. Quickly rumors spread that Slovakia (whose autonomy Germany has guaranteed for 25 years) was to be partitioned at once between Hungary and the Third Reich. Poles, keeping a sharp eye on Nazi troops, saw only a flanking threat to Poland in the move, believed that probably Germans were simply fortifying their strategic position (as they have a right to by treaty) for future haggling over Danzig...
...cascaded over Niagara Falls between 1776 and a summery night last week when the great-great-great-grandson of England's George III was trundled across Niagara River to set foot in the U. S. A.-first British sovereign ever to do so. A royal red carpet was spread on the station platform at Niagara Falls, N. Y. and when the blue & silver royal train slid in, Secretary of State Cordell Hull & wife stepped up to welcome the visitors. Mr. Hull said: "Your Majesties, on behalf of the Government and the people of the United States, I have...
...between the seats, the whole bus had to be driven to the hospital. An unseasonable drought half ruined the strawberry crop (strawberries and clotted Devonshire cream is a favorite English dish this time of year), but the countryside had seldom looked greener. Elsewhere in Europe the heat wave also spread...
...Cuban Immigration Department to land as passengers en route to the U. S.-and on May 5, nine days before the St. Louis sailed, hard-faced President Federico Laredo Bru had decreed that Cuba required specific permission of the Departments of State, Labor and the Treasury. Rumors spread as Tuesday passed without change, as New York representatives of Jewish relief agencies flew to Havana. The rumors whispered of a longstanding dispute between the Hamburg-American Line and the Cuban Government, of a growth of Cuban anti-Semitism due to the landing of 5,000 refugees in Havana during the past...