Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London's biggest riot in years. Every provocation had been given the proletariat by No. 1 British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, who had announced weeks ahead that 5,000 of his Blackshirts would march through the tortuous streets of London's Jewish quarter east of the Tower. This was interpreted by Jews and workers alike as a challenge to battle, the British Communist Party hurling its cohorts with the slogan "MOSLEY SHALL NOT PASS...
Thirty-three men indicated their intentions of flying this year at the first meeting of the Flying Club held in the Lowell House Tower Room last evening...
...microphone into which the Ambassador spoke at a safe distance: "ATTENTION ALCÁZAR! The Ambassador of the Republic of Chile, accredited to the Spanish Republic, wishes to speak to you! If you agree to this request signal with a white flag from the second balcony of the tower facing the Zocodover Square. Meanwhile the Government suspends hostilities. ATTENTION ALCÁZAR!" Five times the Ambassador thus adroitly asked the Commandant to show the white flag of surrender. Finally Alcázar cadets, who had been under siege for 54 days, replied with one shot at the squawking loudspeaker...
Manager: Daniel Tower...
...concentrated along the Suez Canal, it being estimated that the Egyptians will take eight years to build suitable barracks for them there and complete the strategic roads. Since Egyptian public opinion is exceedingly hostile to continued British occupation of the Citadel at Cairo-equivalent to occupation of the Tower of London by an alien military force-it was expected that the British would soon quit the Citadel and that this would be a popular feather in the fez of Premier Nahas...