Word: sures
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About one hundred years old, Vag reflected, is the spirit of German unity. Writers had preceded the 30s, to be sure, and students in the radical universities had given Metternich many a violent headache with their liberal ideas; but only then did they begin to succeed in their boring from within. They succeeded, ideologically; but not in 1830, nor even in 1848, did the Reich become a reality. Not until 1852, when a pilot with ideals of blood and iron took over. And not until 18 years later, when the Prussian army marched into Paris...
...smart-alecky, in referring to our good Governor as senile (TIME, Nov. 13). We Michigan folks who know Governor Dickinson think highly of him. His efforts to help a difficult labor problem in Detroit assuredly ought not to be considered senile. True he tried prayer. To be sure it was a Protestant prayer. And Mr. Murphy, now Attorney General and our former Governor, also tried prayer. His was a Catholic prayer. We Michigan folks would not think it senile or flippant if a Jewish prayer should be used in an honest effort to get the automobile workers back...
...Sure sign that almost normal times were at hand was the resumption by Queen Mary, mother of King George VI, of her shopping for antiques in London...
...Sure to prove a cockpit of lively squabbles is the new Assembly. Its Opposition majority was already claiming last week that the Assembly is sovereign and ought to supplant Congress. The Government minority cracked back that the Assembly has no authority to do more than draft a new Constitution, which Cuban voters may accept or reject. With such prime ingredients for revolution brewing, the Cuban pot simmered this week close to a boil...
...order to give this new drive teeth, Leahy said that plainclothesmen and women detectives are going to be scattered throughout the city to be sure that the local "refreshment houses" toe the line. All taverns violating this regulation will first be warned. Then if further trouble occurs their licenses will be revoked. Several have already been warned...