Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Believing the Easter truce on anti-Semitic demonstrations over, prankish Storm Troopers rounded up hundreds of Jews in Vienna's parks, marshaled them into parade formation, roared with laughter when they forced them to perform a burlesque of the goose step through the city's amusement centre. The troopers made Jewish cafe patrons scrub floors and wash windows, and escorted through the streets customers from Jewish stores who were forced to carry signs reading: "I am an Aryan pig. I bought from a Jewish shop." Meanwhile, the official Vienna Nazi newsorgan Völkischer Beobachter, after declaring that...
...British lower classes can subsist indefinitely on bread and margarine-in which whale oil is a key ingredient.) What Sir John was really doing, as he "opened" the Budget last week, was unlocking the State secret that His Majesty's Government have craftily completed the first step necessary to prepare the Empire against immediate attack -i.e., for war (see p. 75). They have stocked their grocery shelves with enough edibles to feed British Islanders, according to Sir John, "during the early months of an emergency...
...will have to have four children in order to keep the birth rate from falling. Any social change which will bring about this proportion of children per family will involve radical economic changes. The high standard of living in modern democracies must be taken into consideration if any such step is taken...
...each other's reach, two red lines were drawn down the centre of the House of Commons, two swords' lengths (about 6 ft.) apart. When the present building was erected (1840-50), the lines were replaced by strips of red carpet. To this day no member may step off the carpet while addressing the House...
...Russell W. Brown was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in his garage. The three surviving officers. President George F. Allum, Vice President Olaf Andrew Larsen and Secretary & Treasurer Henry Adolph Engel, went to jail for lack of bail. Few days later the Chicago Stock Exchange took the unprecedented step of advertising "An Open Letter to the Public . . . INVESTIGATE -BEFORE YOU INVEST...