Word: three-year
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...this tantalized foreign observers, but it scared Hungarians at home. Although the last election gave Hungarian Nazis 50 new seats in Parliament, they have not had an easy time; their leader, Ferenz Szalasi, the "Hungarian Henlein," is serving a three-year prison term; aristocratic, 71-year-old Admiral Horthy has so little use for Nazis (although he visited Führer Hitler in 1938) that their opponents insist Hungary can become a Nazi state only over his dead body. Last December the aged hero got so mad at Nazi hecklers at a Budapest opera that he left his box, climbed...
...teacher, is the Bill Tilden of his race. Onetime captain of the College of the City of New York tennis team (a rarity for a Negro ), he has been the most outstanding colored U. S. tennist of the past decade: national champion in 1931-32-33 and-after a three-year retirement while attending medical college-again...
...five-month season, live like Hollywood stars in Norway's whaling capital, Sandefjord. For the business depends on their art, finding whales and killing them. Two years ago Germany (world's biggest whale-oil user) signed Harpooner Lars Andersen, Norway's ace gunner, to a three-year contract at a reputed salary of around $125,000 a season...
...last week's action was that France could not afford to hold a general election, with its attendant publicity of the divisions of French political thought, while it was engaged in a "white war" with the Axis powers. Said Finance Minister Paul Reynaud, author of the French three-year economic plan which will also run until 1942: "Today ... on the threshold of the most perilous period of our history, I am sure that nobody would do anything to weaken France by dividing her. The bloodless war which is being forced on us, we can and must...
...Baraboo, Wis., Otto Bach, arrested on a charge of forging checks, was released, placed on three-year probation when he explained: "I manufacture check protectors to prevent forgeries. Business is slack and I ran out of funds...