Word: slash
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists in 1933. He became Mosley's speechifying director of propaganda. In 1937, he was kicked out, formed Britain's National Socialist League. As a memento of one Fascist brawl in Great Britain, Joyce carries the scar of a razor slash from mouth to right ear. The British Catholic Herald, after considerable inquiry among Joyce's former associates, stated flatly: "Lord Haw-Haw is William Joyce." The Herald further reported that Joyce had been brought up a Catholic, but that he has since been "entirely dominated by his anti-Semitic...
...Congressional realists this modest proposal was, putting it kindly, sheer romance. They heard but they did not harken to the President's argument: that an emergency pay-as-you-go defense tax would further slash his deficit...
...slash pine coastal flats of northeastern Florida one day last week went nervous, balding President Edward M. Mills of Rayonier Inc., world's biggest producer of the white, superfine dissolving pulps used by rayon makers for viscose yarn and staple fibre. No urge to fish in landlocked Fernandina harbor or take the sun on its 14-mile beach had taken him to Florida's northernmost resort, now sadly down at the heel. He went to see Rayonier's newest pulp plant for the first time since it went into production early in December. Ahead lay a beckoning...