Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economic factor, the two countries had nothing but a common grain agreement and, in the last months, transport and food councils. Said suave French Finance Minister Paul Reynaud: "No better proof than this economic and financial accord could be found of the common will to carry this fight to a finish. It has been inspired by the same spirit that made possible unity of command for the military forces...
...Plumstead, a Labor peer, once a stable groom, scathingly denounced "this tribute to Hitler," but Lord Darnley's proposal was warmly seconded by Baron Arnold, who was Under Secretary for Colonies and later Paymaster General in the British Labor Governments of 1924 and 1929. "The policy of a fight to the finish is wrong," cried Lord Arnold, arguing that, if Britain and France continue fighting Germany until the Nazis are overthrown by revolution, the German people will then go Communist and join the Russians in spreading Communism over the whole of Eastern Europe...
Digging into the fat tome, which in English runs to 344 pages, scholars noted that it falls into four sections. The first, comprising more than half the book, rehearses the whole of German-Polish relations, 1919-39, to depict "The Fight Against the Germans in Poland and Against Danzig and Germany's Attempts Under National Socialism to Reach an Understanding with Poland." This is largely made up of reports by German diplomats and consuls in Poland of "injustices" and "atrocities" suffered by expatriate Germans at the hands of Poles. The short second section, "The British War Policy," accusingly produces...
...Item brought out a morning edition called the Tribune. Founded to help Publisher Thomson fight the Times-Picayune, the Tribune gave New Orleans its fourth daily (third was the Item's afternoon rival, the States) and made it one of the hottest competitive newspaper towns in the country. Within six years the Tribune was close behind the States in circulation, the Item and Tribune together outsold the Times-Picayune...
...from all over the country. The delay encountered in ferreting out the fifty successful aspirants was unfortunate but excusable, considering the exacting requirements necessary for such a course. But subsequent snags have not been so pardonable. The worst instance has been the delay of six whole weeks in actual fight instruction that occurred while the list of chosen men, sent to Washington for approval, lay buried in the offices...