Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outside it is relatively quiet. Inside one voice talks, and many voices sing, and a thousand flowers and some heads not for one hour. Then once more--taxis, limousines, streetcars, bells, walking feet, colors. Easter Sunday again...
...Telegraph and Western Union were being used by Father Coughlin's responsive listeners. By the next day, when the time came for a vote on recommittal, no fewer than 100,000 telegrams had piled up on Senators' desks in Washington and quantities were still pouring in. Twenty thousand went to New York's Royal S. Copeland, who was going to vote against the bill anyway. Ten thousand went to New York's Robert Wagner, who promptly decided to vote against instead of for the bill, and the presumption was that several of his colleagues would...
...Three thousand benches were lugged into the disused Northwest Railway Station, and soon 25,000 people jammed this impromptu auditorium, bellowing guttural cheers as Orator Göring in ruthless fashion rammed all the most provocative Nazi doctrines home. Austrian Monarchists he first taunted, by referring to the head of the House of Habsburg as "This comic boy, Archduke Otto!" (guffaws) Grimly Göring warned: "If Legitimism†continues, it will be treated as high treason, regardless of whether the charge strikes at an archduke or a worker!" Meanwhile last week, put under Nazi lock & key near Salzburg...
Arrests. The Vienna Nazi press jubilantly reported that thousands of deserted automobiles had piled up along the frontiers as Jews, Catholics and Schuschnigg supporters were caught trying to escape. Typical of the thoroughness with which Nazi adherents had prepared for "the day" was the fact that 24 hours after Nazification the Nazi guard at the remotest frontier post was armed with a fully tabulated, thumb-indexed book of many thousand names on the Nazi black list, which he checked against the passports of those wishing to cross. Most sensational arrest in Jewish financial circles was that of retired Banker Baron...
...George F. Havell & associates. Mr. Havell and his friends, none of them wealthy, anticipated working capital from an unnamed publishing angel. While Recession interceded and the angel procrastinated, one of the Digest's few substantial sources of revenue was renting to advertisers (at $8 to $15 per thousand names) its mailing lists of 4,000,000 names of present and former subscribers. But that was only a stopgap. On Feb. 24, the working capital not yet in hand, President Havell suspended the 48-year-old Literary Digest for two weeks...