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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Napoleon, the last man to go conquering through Europe, lasted 15 years. Adolf Hitler has already lasted six. Historians wondered, now that he has taken to outright conquest, how many more good years he had coming to him. For the history books say he who begins swallowing minorities begins swallowing poison...
...party, arriving in Berlin, were treated with the greatest consideration. The President's daughter was given a great big bouquet of yellow roses tied with a red bow (on which was stamped a swastika). The party, taken to the Adlon Hotel to wash up, found their suite banked with "more flowers than had ever been in the hotel before." (There were also more steel-helmeted military sentries in the hotel than usual.) As a sobering sight, Nazis let Dr. Hácha review some troops while he waited...
From dawn until dusk 200,000 tank troops and motorized infantry poured across the border, successively occupying Moravská Ostrava, Pilsen, Koblovice. The huge iron works at Vitkovice were taken (according to the official German News Bureau) "so fast that Communist workmen could not carry out their plans to damage the plant...
This time clipped 1.6 seconds off the great Lloyd Hahn's indoor half-mile record of 1 :51.4 set in 1928, but Borican was dissatisfied. Said he: "I think I could have taken two seconds off my time tonight if I had . . . someone in front of me on the last...
...season. But the four indoor ball-and-racquet games-court tennis, racquets, squash racquets and squash tennis-are still the exclusive pastimes of folks on the sunnier side of the railroad tracks. In all the U. S., for example, there are perhaps fewer than 500 persons who have ever taken a cut at a court tennis ball. Racquets players have been so few that one ball maker, a man named Jeffries Mailings, until his death 20 years ago, made all the balls required by all the world's players in his two-story home in Woolwich, England. His firm...