Word: weapon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Isolationist Senators were whetting their knives for his "Morgan Board." By disbanding it, minimizing its report, and chiding its sponsor, Louis Johnson, the President in time's nick snatched a deadly weapon from his foes in the Senate. About all they had left to hit him with then was the reasonable supposition that Big Steel's Stettinius will be back on the pre-war scene in Washington at some more politic time...
Unspeakable Weapons. Tucked elsewhere into the Führer's long and heated speech were his old claims that Poland started World War II incited by the Allies; that France was willing at the last moment to keep peace on terms proposed by Italy but was rushed by Britain into war; that the whole Danzig question was an agony to A. Hitler personally ("What keen suffering I underwent in these years only few can imagine"); that Poles have invented a new atrocity ("Worst of all the Polish Government quite openly admitted on its own radio that parachuting German fliers...
...Robert Ley, was known to be here & there behind the Wall, driving his men to complete and strengthen the fortifications behind which Germany was preparing either a permanent stand or a counteroffensive the nature of which was darkly dramatized by A. Hitler's reference in Danzig to "a weapon with which we cannot be attacked...
Adolf Hitler, in his speech at Danzig last week (see p. 20), uttered a dark hint that Germany possesses a secret and unique weapon. This threat stirred Professor Archibald M. Low, A.C.G.I., M.I.A.E., F.C.S., F.I.P.I., F.R.A., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., D.Sc., Ph.D., F. Inst. Arb. to retaliate. Professor Low is a British television pioneer and jack-of-all-science who worked for the British Government in the last war, invented a wireless control gear for torpedoes. After some scientific snickers at death rays and bacteriological bombs, Professor Low growled: "Whether Hitler has any horrors or not to produce at the moment...
...Typical items: "GRENDELINE HOLY OIL. It is said the Sibber Tribes of India used Holy Oil in all important undertakings, believing this Oil would aid them in success. Prince Sibber never believed in failure. We offer you Grendeline Holy Oil. . . . Price per bottle $1.00." "JUNGLES FLOOR WASH . . . most important weapon for fighting Evil conditions...