Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus the nearly extinct Czecho-Slovak Republic still survived last week with a 50-ft. front on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue. Czech consuls in other U. S. cities followed Minister Hurban's lead. In Minneapolis, Consul Charles E. Proschek said: "I have never received any instructions or training in rules of etiquette on what to do when confronted with international bandits. . . . They can go back whence they came with my compliments." The State Department soon made known that it would in no way assist the Nazis to seize the Czech Government's property...
Reformers such as the Nation fear that Bill Douglas is too conservative because he does not believe that high finance, even when honest, is still "the art of getting something for nothing." Wall Streeters, however, believe that he inherited more than enough righteousness. Last week, for example, just when the stock exchanges thought they had him all lined up to relax the rules about trading by "insiders," as SEC's contribution to "appeasement," he sharply called their report "a phoney...
...more money if he could define a new "emergency." He now said: "The reduction in the appropriation in itself created an emergency."* He said half the $725,000,000 voted by Congress in February would be gone by April 1, with about 3,000,000 clients still on WPA's rolls. To make the money last through June, 400,000 workers must be dropped in April, he said; 600,000 more in May; 200,000 more in June. The hardship on these 1,200,000 would be felt by their 3,800,000 dependents, not to mention other millions...
When we're still in our first stages of high school, the students are a great mystery. It's rumored about that the students are "awfully rich, and Hegbert's father, yes, they always have wonderful names, is the mayor of Slingtown or president of a bank," and that they must be "powerfully" brilliant to get into Harvard...
...fighting was Michalovce, which withstood a Hungarian siege while Hungarian and Slovak planes battled overhead. During one fight, in which 17 planes were engaged, four Hungarian and two Slovak planes were reported shot down and four other Slovak planes made forced landings. Two Slovak planes were still missing. Bratislava residents were tense with fear that their city would be bombarded, though Slovaks generally believe that this is unlikely since Germany probably would consider it a cause...