Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared without authorization on anti-Jew proclamations in Munich. Like a naughty schoolboy Handsome Adolf was summoned to the Feldmarschall's office, and Handsome Adolf meekly backed down. He was willing to call off the boycott, he realized its folly, but what could he do? Orders could not stop it, the Nazis would run wild. President von Hindenburg reminded his Chancellor of his oath to defend the rights of all law-abiding citizens. He threatened to declare martial law and abolish the Government. Then a compromise was reached: the boycott would be declared, but for nine hours on Saturday...
...world protest seemed to take them by surprise. Handsome Adolf's invaluable assistant, Minister Without Portfolio Hermann Goring, summoned foreign correspondents to his apartment for an angry, hour-long speech to the effect that the Jewish reign of terror had not taken place -but that it would stop at once...
...hand Indian fighting with the machete, instead of the modern warfare that had astounded South America around Munoz. Only an occasional bombing plane tried to find a Paraguayan in the bog. In the close wet heat, under clouds of hard-biting ihenni flies, the men fought in spasms, stopped to pant, slap and rest. Against Bolivia's German management, Paraguayans had French-trained Jose Estigarribia. Retreating, they left cemeteries on whose fast-rotting headboards were names of Russian officers. General Kundt's objective was to cut off Fort Nanawa; the Paraguayans' to stop him at Nanawa...
Bolivia's economic objective was an outlet to the Paraguay River and thence to the Atlantic Ocean; little Paraguay's objectives were land and the tannin from the quebracho tree. To stop the war that has never been declared, three sets of peace makers including a neutral commission in Washington, a League of Nations observation commission and the ABCP group of neighbors (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru) had done nothing. When it was winning last December, Paraguay wanted no peace in the bog. Last week advancing Bolivia wanted no peace, suggested a 30-to 60-day armistice to bring...
...novelty the next Pan-American Medical Congress will be a wandering event. A ship will pick up the doctors at Manhattan, put them ashore for quick clinics at Miami, Havana, Panama City, San Juan, P. R., Caracas (main stop...