Word: stills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this point riot cars full of Schutzstaffeln (Hitler Elite Guards) took over. Rolling up to the university, they unlimbered machine guns, began to haul off "ringleaders." In dormitories, where many who had not turned out for the demonstration were still in their night clothes, some of the students hastily piled up barricades of tables, beds and chairs. Others fled into the night amid a, spray of Nazi machine-gun bullets. When the skirmish ended, scores of the wounded were carried off to Prague hospitals...
...revolution but it will take time. Higher officers of the Army are too subservient to Hitler to take part. But the Nazis have many enemies among the colonels, majors and subordinate officers. For a revolt to be successful in the Reich, three things will be needed. First, Germans who still believe in Hitler must feel the horrors of war; second, the Reich must suffer its first military reverses, and, finally, privations in the country must become more acute. All these things can happen by the spring of 1940. Hitlerism will perish through internal revolt...
...Jaffe knew what kind of fathead might properly be boiled in oil (a fish called a fathead). Composer-Critic Deems Taylor remembered what musical composition a baby's cry reminded him of (Richard Strauss's Domestic Symphony). Catcher Moe Berg identified Garibaldi's Carbonari. Russel Grouse still thought the football team best suggested by an ocean was C. C. N. Y. (book answer: Tulane's Green Wave). Lillian Gish remembered her Browning better. The board recalled three of Peggy Joyce's four husbands...
...Louis Ethelbert Whitsitt, now Convict No. 34,234 in Southern Michigan State Prison at Jackson, still has considerable time to serve. He got life for the murder, 45 to 90 years for the kidnapping. The judge said the sentences were to run concurrently. If he keeps out of trouble, and if, somehow, the life sentence should be commuted, Louis Whitsitt might be let out by 1950, or anyway...
...Still waiting for U. S. citizenship: Labor Leader Harry Bridges, German exiles Thomas Mann, Albert Einstein...