Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German funsters, like Russians, are still willing to risk their necks with political wisecracks. A recent conundrum which they thought sidesplitting: "What is the difference between Russia and Germany?" Answer: "Russia is much colder...
...pass through other countries, including England and the U. S. To 25 Manchukuoan glad-handers, British and U. S. consular authorities last week had readily granted visas. But neither Britain nor the U. S. would grant the honorable Mr. Amakasu even a transit visa. To Britain a murderer is still an "undesirable alien." to the U. S. a murderer is still guilty of "moral turpitude," to both a murderer is a murderer...
...inlet Khor Musa of the Persian Gulf, pull in to Iran's inland capital. Thus the Trans-Iranian Railway, most spectacular, most expensive railroad enterprise undertaken since the World War, was pronounced completed. The railroad is the dream come true of a westernizing, wilful ruler who still believes in the 19th-Century notion that railroad-building is a matter of national prestige...
...that he had become "Premier for Life." Some of the 400 peasants who seized the town of Canea, capital of Crete, surrendered when the Greek Navy arrived carrying two regiments of Greek soldiers. Others, including 42 known rebel leaders, escaped to Crete's rugged mountains, where they are still at large...
...Judge Emmett H. Wilson,-* known for his many labor injunctions, Times attorneys argued that no ordinary judge could have been unduly swayed, that the Times was exercising its constitutional right of free speech, that if comment were prohibited until every legal move were exhausted, what about the Mooney case-still going strong after more than 20 years...