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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks private correspondents from Czecho-Slovakia had spoken of the intense activity in Prague of German Gestapo agents. For a year young men like those who had circulated around Vienna in 1937-38, dropping a word here and a word there for Naziism, had been active in Prague. The swift, smooth pace of the occupation (see p. 17) showed that the Germans had made organized preparations for it well in advance...
Last week, with the annexation of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia, Herr Hit ler's word proved as bad a prophet as ever. He grabbed 32,000 square miles, population of 9,250,000, new munitions (including the Skoda works), a large shoe industry, Pilsen breweries, gold reserve...
...Swedish the word plan means both airplane and scheme. Last week there reached the U. S. from Sweden a strange story involving both...
Then things began to happen. Word soon spread around that the show at the Great Northern Theatre was worth the price of admission (55? top). Chicago's best critics ventured inside, came out beaming. Music lovers began to go, found that Chicago's most energetic baton-waving and most stimulating symphonic programs were being dished out by, its WPAsters...
...historians have edged past tall, sonorous-voiced, peg-legged Gouverneur Morris with only a furtive nod. Only biographer with nerve enough to write a friendly word of him was roughriding Teddy Roosevelt. And T. R.'s biography of Morris (1888) made little splash...