Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that a Nazi, even of the Old Guard, is partly of Jewish blood unleashes anti-Semitic decrees against him, and Germany has seen numberless pathetic cases of Jews professing themselves ardently pro-Nazi in vain efforts to save themselves. Before Adolf Hitler came to power his Brown Shirts regularly took up so-called "voluntary contributions" from Jews who hoped that as contributors they would be spared after the Party took over Germany...
Japan's control, re-signed when complete charge of the China policy was taken from his office, put in the hands of an army-sponsored China Control Board. Ambassador Saito, regarded as too liberal by the army, declined on the grounds of ill health. Piqued, Premier Konoye took him at his word, told him that if he was too ill for the Foreign Ministry he was certainly too ill to continue in Washington, ordered him home...
Last week, His Eminence, born a Sudeten Austrian, preached a plain-spoken anti-Nazi sermon at a youth service at St. Stephen's, exhorted 10,000 worshipers to "give outward testimony" of their faith. The "outward testimony" soon took the form of Catholic demonstrations before Nazi sympathizers. The next evening Nazi groups struck back. Storming the archiepiscopal palace adjoining the Cathedral, they hurled stones through the windows, pushed past a gateman, entered the palace itself and indulged in a little looting. Cardinal Innitzer, praying in his private chapel throughout the tumult, was reported to have been slightly injured...
When Publisher Annenberg revealed his determination to spend millions invigorating the Inquirer and make it more blatantly Republican than J. David Stern's Record was Democratic, Philadelphia's Old Dealers took hope. Soon Publisher Annenberg sat at the council tables, if not the dinner tables, of Pennsylvania's Republican aristocracy. By last week, lean, greying, 60-year-old Moe Annenberg had become the leading abomination of Pennsylvania Democrats and the central figure in three political-publishing battles...
After Wallace's unforgettable visit, David's Uncle Byron, a botanist, took him to Rutgers College for postgraduate work. He entered the Department of Agriculture in 1889, and in the next half century became one of the world's greatest plant hunters...