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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crisis of his career. Fortnight ago the "maximum concessions" which the Czechoslovak Government believed it possible to make to Sudeten Germans without shattering its own sovereignty were offered in Premier Milan Hodza's "Plan No. 3," which Hitler promptly had the Sudetens turn down. The President then took over from the Premier, drafted and released...
...working himself up to this breakdown, Orator Göring cried: "We want peace but Versailles took peace out of the world! . . . We can always shoot but we never get jittery . . . God is kind! . . . Our air force justifies unshakable confidence in victory and our fortifications in the west will halt any power under...
...Lewis, M. Jouhaux and Sr. González Peña took no active part last week as Sr. Lombardo Toledano and the other Latin Americans proceeded to found a Federation of Latin American Workers, which adopted a constitution, made Mexico City its headquarters, provided that its president must reside there and then elected Vicente Lombardo Toledano first president. In flattering compliment to President Cárdenas, who last week won for Mexican Federal employes the right to strike, the constitution borrowed almost the exact words of a recent Cárdenas radioration as its charter: that "the principal task...
Leon Trotsky, cooped up in his Mexico City refuge and pledged to silence on matters affecting Mexico, almost burst with anxiety at all these developments last week. What the Great Exile was thinking was meanwhile mirrored by his landlord, Diego Rivera, who took time out from painting a mural for a Pittsburgh capitalist to issue awful warnings: "Lombardo Toledano has closely intertwined his fate with that of the Soviet oligarchy in the Kremlin. From there he receives instructions and all kinds of aid. For Moscow it is a question of transforming the workers' organizations of all America into...
...famed old Southern name: Pinckney, Stuart, Randolph, Bryan, Cocke, Fairfax, Carter, Kinsolving. When Northern troops occupied the school buildings in the Civil War, virtually all the 75 students were away fighting in the Confederate Army, and 61 were killed. In the World War, 461 old Episcopal High School boys took part as soldiers, one as the nation's Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker.- Among the school's casualties was Quentin Roosevelt...