Word: saboteurs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Civil Aeronautics Authority's crash board issued a post-mortem (in advance of official reports): a rag in the air intake had choked off the Q.E.D.'s breath. Crash Board Member Carl B. Allen hastened to add that sabotage was out of the question because no saboteur could so plant a rag as to gum the works at a crucial moment. How it got there remained any man's guess. Some guesses: 1) the propeller whisked it off the ground into the intake; 2) a careless grease-monkey left it near the intake; 3) sabotage...
Across the Channel in France two onetime French Premiers openly talked appeasement. Pierre Laval, signer of the 1935 pact with Italy and saboteur of the French eastern European alliance system, urged before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee a return to friendship with Italy, warned that a Soviet pact would be more dangerous than helpful. Pierre Etienne Flandin, who wired congratulations to Adolf Hitler last autumn after Munich, called for "mediation" with Germany...
...title of saboteur-or-speculator was thereby conferred on no less a person than Robert Alphonso Taft, son of William Howard Taft, who has commenced suit for $1.07 against the Government, for interest on a gold-clause bond...
...times the amount of interest on the Dawes and Young loans" lately repudiated by Dr. Schacht (TIME, June 25). The British note, probably the stiffest yet signed by Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, accused the Reichsbank by inference of falsifying its statistics and branded Dr. Schacht as a willful saboteur of German credit. "The policy of Germany," Sir John charged, "is to claim that no foreign exchange resources are available to meet the service on her loans, and then to apply resources which should have been used in meeting that service to the repurchase of her loans...
...sugar not only sand but powdered glass. He and his eleven accomplices, allegedly "Tsarists & kulaks at heart," were charged with "holding back fresh meat and vegetables until they spoiled" and generally conspiring to give the Moscow Restaurant Trust an evil, stinking name. After five days five culprits, including Soup Saboteur Oshkin Mikkhail, were sentenced to "the highest form of social protection-death by shooting." Six accomplices got prison terms of from 18 months to eight years, one was acquitted. Russia faced a grave food shortage last winter at the time Oshkin was supposed to have been most active. The food...