Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spinning along a Washington highway this week, Justice McReynolds' car hit a bump, sloughed into a telephone pole guy wire. Unscathed, the Justice gruffed: "I feel quite chipper...
...because they cannot publish photographs taken under the eyes of French military authorities at the front. The same pictures appear in British journals which are read in France; but they cannot be transmitted to any neutral country. Telegrams and cables, no matter where they originate, are censored. A suspicious wire from Amsterdam to the Paris office of the New York Times had its first three lines deleted. They read: "Grover Whalen arrived at The Hague from Brussels and says he is satisfied with the results of his talks in Switzerland, France and Rome...
...first arrivals was last week reported by the Berlin correspondent of the Copenhagen Politiken. The unhappy Jews were virtual slaves. The area around the city was entirely hedged in by barbed wire and bayonets. Gradually the Jews were herded from the station, given quarters of sorts, put immediately to work (twelve hours a day) on roads, fields, bogs, buildings...
...have recruited over 100,000. Communists charge that the Government promised a monthly subsidy of $45,000, has been granting only $30,000. Central Armies have uniform arms; Communists have eight different kinds of rifles, and the Government has given them no artillery, no telephone wire, no heavy machine guns, almost no ammunition. The Government says: Why train and arm a Communist Army just to have it turn on us? Generalissimo Chiang has long been a hater of Communists; nor do the Communist leaders, Mao, Chu and Chou Enlai, on all of whose heads he once set a price, trust...
...Russo-Finnish crisis having lapsed temporarily into the name-calling stage, big bad news in the Baltic last week came from Sweden. There the national budget, for years as soundly balanced as the Great Wallendas, was shown to have taken a terrific topple from the high wire. Loss of revenues due to wartime trade curtailment, plus the cost of keeping the Army and Navy mobilized for emergency, plus armament purchases and providing urban Swedes with gas masks and air-raid shelters, had largely done the job. Finance Minister Dr. Ernst Wigforss announced that since he reported balance to the Riksdag...