Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Indiana's soil, as distinct from its station platforms, was dotted with shocks of new-cut wheat. Young green corn was two to three feet high, and high-legged hogs stood up to their chocolate-colored rumps in lush, weedy meadows. Wild hollyhocks and roses splashed the...
His American Legion connections are nationwide, and the Legion membership is now in its political prime. He has an executive record uncomplicated by such national issues as Relief, Money, Neutrality. Above all he has absolute mastery of Indiana through a machine that is as old-fashioned in its efficiency as...
That class, says Professor Pitkin, is patient, mute, productive, yet is put upon by the predatory rich, the predatory poor, the lunatic fringe, the criminal fringe, the racketeers (including crooked politicians). He wants the Middle Classers to fight back. He wants to start a newspaper, a magazine, a radio forum...
As the Nazis followed through their by now familiar routine of the "war of nerves" by massing troops on the Polish border, smuggling SS men and ammunition into Danzig, spreading tales of terror, creating incidents and sounding false alarms, the outline of the coup could be foreseen. Danzig would have...
Die. While war fears rose in Britain and France, in Germany the people believed that their Führer was again going to have his way by simply threatening to fight. That was not the situation, however, reflected to the outside world by the German propaganda machine. A purported Hitler...