Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German, this must work against giving credence to McMahon. On the other hand, numerous European observers consider that the fanatic Nazi secret terror squads who have done so many murders in Eastern Europe work on the assumption that Germany has nothing to lose and something to gain from any sudden shock to one of the regimes with whom Adolf Hitler is trying to make headway with his demands for colonies and land. Frequent have been charges that Nazis instigated the assassination of Yugoslav King Alexander. Sick almost unto death of a strange poison lay last week Rumania's greatest...
...chance to throttle him. After a White air raid on the capital Premier Largo Caballero had to use all force at his disposal to keep his enthusiastic friends from massacring all Whites held in Madrid jails. Announced by the Government without further explanation were the ''sudden deaths" of General Enrique Marzo of the Spanish infantry, millionaire Count de los Moriles and onetime Spanish Premier Damaso Berenguer...
Irascible Dr. Barnes on the other hand is given to sudden generosity. Not long ago he found four young U. S. artists whose work he approved. He paid their debts, canceled their leases, bought steamer tickets and sent them to France for a year's study...
This growing business was temptingly profitable. Its tales of wealth, sudden and not so sudden, are fabulous and some of them are real. Dean of the gold mining business is old Judge John W. Haussermann, who went to the Philippines 38 years ago as a second lieutenant of the 20th Kansas regiment and returned last July as Republican National Committeeman to hear Alf Landon accept his Presidential nomination. The tale concerning him is that anyone who put $100 into his Benguet Consolidated Mining 25 years ago would be worth $500,000 today. Even so, although he nursed his company along...
This glorious sensation of sudden riches could not help being felt in high places. Fortnight ago, President Manuel Quezon with more moderation than most of his compatriots put his blessing on the boom: "In their mines the Philippines have a storage of great wealth. If reports of the Bureau of Science are justified I believe that our country is one of the richest in the world...