Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the Bund had been strictly "an American patriotic organization," had used the swastika only because it was "an old American Indian design," had patterned its uniforms after the U.S. National Guard rather than the SS. As to his 1944 meeting with Hitler: "Purely a social call. If I went to England today, I would naturally like to call on King George." As a clincher, Kuhn cried: "You don't get justice in a German court," said he would prefer a U.S. court* "any time...
...Rogers, city health officer, went into action. The slaughter of nylons, he decided, was probably caused by acid-laden soot from low-grade fuel...
...white farmer-clergyman sent Peter to the Te Aute College for Maoris, where he made top marks at both books and sports. He graduated from the School of Medicine at the University of Otago in 1904 and went back to his mother's people as a government health officer. In 1909, he was elected to Parliament and soon became a member of the cabinet. In World War I, he won the Distinguished Service Order as second in command of the Maori Battalion...
...protests in perspective: a selection of some 59 paintings most representative of a century (1830-1930) of U.S. painting, set side by side with what contemporary critics had said about the works. The show's title was to the point: "De Gustibus . . ." Double the usual crowds went to the Corcoran...
...went to work with a will, learned the trade of the artist-engraver, bullied his master into revealing a few closely guarded technical tricks by threatening to murder him. Soon he was turning out the first of the 1,300-odd plates which by mid-18th Century had made him famous...