Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should seek out influential men throughout the Reich, plead the cause of the Church with them and ask them to bring about the unification of the ideals of the Church and the ideals of the State. Freedom of thought still exists and nothing can obstruct the aims of the State more than these attacks on Christianity...
...clear signal, while Japanese men-of-war made demonstrations along the shore. When the Japanese made their main landing in force, the first 700 men ashore, led by 70 picked troops who formed a shirodasukitai ("White Band of Death"), swept the first Chinese aside, pushed on towards what they thought was the second defense line of the Chinese. As soon as they reached it, hidden mines were exploded and those Japanese who were not blown to bits were wiped out by sheets of machine-gun fire...
...Italy (and Germany) fear a collectivist state on the Mediterranean more than France (and Russia) fear a fascist state on her southern border? Britain, which always is fertile of ideas about governing other countries, has batted out a number of notions on the Spanish problem. The latest school of thought is that the best possible solution is partition, the historical model presumably being Panama, which revolted (with U. S. help) and split off from Colombia...
...play the piano, compromised on a clarinet, but Freddie says he always broke the reed just before school band practice. When he was 21 and able to keep a reed intact, Freddie bought a dinner jacket and got a job in an Orpheum Circuit band. Later Freddie Fisher thought up the name "Schnickelfritz" (German slang for silly fellow), and assembled five men to play a permanent date in a tavern in Winona, Minn. Frankly out to build up a novelty band rather than one which would be noted for its music, Freddie signed up two cards like himself...
...reached almost zero level with the prizefight public when he posed for a picture with onetime Champion Braddock, onetime Champion Max Baer, onetime Contender Harry Wills, as his "advisers" (see cut). In the fight,' however, Joe Louis did not hit as hard or as accurately as the experts thought he would and Farr hit harder. Speaking over the radio after the fight, Louis admitted (that he had been hurt twice. Said Farr: [Ve got plenty of guts-that's old Tommy Farr, you know. I'm a Welshman...