Word: truce
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mediator Chamberlain was represented as believing it possible: 1) that Fiihrer Adolf Hitler and II Duce Benito Mussolini would persuade Generalissimo Francisco Franco to talk matters over with his enemies; 2) that French Premier Edouard Daladier could press Spanish Leftist Premier Juan Negrin to declare a truce; 3) that Leftists and Rightists would agree to a government of Spain formed by "neutral" Spaniards in which Catalonia would remain autonomous...
...roaring business with jealous husbands, suspicious partners. Frenchmen stopped buying it first, said it was good only for Anglo-Saxons. But even Anglo-Saxons soon got tired of secret thoughts; and when politicians turned against it, a few people committed suicide, open minds called a truce...
...been the nation: instead of spending their normal $700,000,000 a year in expansion and replacement, the utilities have been getting along on $130,000,000. When renewed Depression jabbed this point home to the President last fall there was a sudden splash of headlines about a utility truce. It failed to come off. Last week there was another splash, and this time there was definite progress in settling both major differences...
Believing the Easter truce on anti-Semitic demonstrations over, prankish Storm Troopers rounded up hundreds of Jews in Vienna's parks, marshaled them into parade formation, roared with laughter when they forced them to perform a burlesque of the goose step through the city's amusement centre. The troopers made Jewish cafe patrons scrub floors and wash windows, and escorted through the streets customers from Jewish stores who were forced to carry signs reading: "I am an Aryan pig. I bought from a Jewish shop." Meanwhile, the official Vienna Nazi newsorgan Völkischer Beobachter, after declaring that...
Utilities. Last fall, when the big guns of business were trained on Franklin Roosevelt to force an armed truce, utility magnates let it be known that there was some $3,000,000,000 in needed utility expansion which had been held up because of the industry's fear of what the Government next might do to it or Wall Street. Whether this expansion is still needed now that power sales have been dwindling for six months is moot, but last week Jesse Jones declared that RFC would be glad to give utilities money for expansion. Said he: "We have...