Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Father Frederick was still in Paris last week, confounding Fascists and having the time of his life. Son David and Nephew Jimmy left Spain last autumn, Jimmy to marry lovely, dark-headed Actress Mary Liles in Manhattan...
...Russia is still the biggest fish when it comes to submarines, having "at least 164" built or building, including 40 of 200 tons...
...retreat to a "New" West China, where he faced the possibility of becoming only a respectable figurehead in an enveloping Communist movement. If Francisco Franco had won the Spanish Civil War after his great spring drive, he might well have been Man-of-the-Year timber. But victory still eluded the Generalissimo and war weariness and disaffection on the Rightist side made his future precarious...
...provincial election (in Thuringia). But from 1928 on the party almost continually gained in electoral strength. In the Reichstag elections of 1928 it polled 809,000 votes. Two years later 6,401,016 Germans voted for National Socialist deputies, while in 1932 the vote was 13,732,779. While still short of a majority, the vote was nevertheless impressive proof of the power of the man and his movement...
...Still pining for Holy Russia after 21 years of Soviet rule are the thousands of White refugees who sit at café tables in Paris, their "capital," where they make a living driving taxis, waiting on tables or trading on their tarnished nobility. But last week it was surprisingly revealed that a great number are particular about how they get back...