[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

A familiar face appeared in the crowd. It was that of Charles Herbert, 47 years old, sometimes known as Chinatown Charlie. She knew Herbert, a racketeer who had been arrested frequently in the poultry racket and convicted six times on various charges.

The poultry racket?

There is also an article titled, “Japan Rushes Five Divisions to Manchukuo.” In the advertising section there is a report about a car-jacking in Yonkers. I thought that was a more recent development.

[csvset]

Charles "Chinatown Charley" Hebert, had been arrested frequently in the poultry racket.

Poultry racket ? What's that all about?

[mountainlion]

One of my favorites is a woman with a gun.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Meanwhile, the Germans are getting ready for their next step.

What had happened to the German guarantee of the rest of Czechoslovakia which Hitler had solemnly promised at Munich to give? When the new French ambassador in Berlin, Robert Coulondre, inquired of Weizsaecker on December 21, 1938, the State Secretary replied that the destiny of Czechoslovakia lay in the hands of Germany and that he rejected the idea of a British-French guarantee. As far back as October 14, when the new Czech Foreign Minister, Frantisek Chvalkovsky, had come humbly begging for crumbs at the hand of Hitler in Munich and had inquired whether Germany was going to join Britain and France in the guarantee of his country’s shrunken frontiers, the Fuehrer replied sneeringly that “the British and French guarantees were worthless . . . and that the only effective guarantee was that by Germany.”

William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 437

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