Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chancellor by an abrupt decree widened the powers of Economics Minister Dr. Kurt Schmitt until he became an Economics Tsar. Old-school Economist Dr. Schmitt is secretive about whether he is yet a Nazi. He is famed for the quiet way in which for months he has shielded Jewish businessmen whenever possible and generally run the Ministry of Economics on sane, rational lines which made him hated by Captain Ernst Roehm and other "Nazi Bolsheviks" now safely massacred. Last week the Cabinet decreed, effective for the next three months: "The Minister of Economics is empowered to take all measures...
Hearing on these proposed amendments was set for this week in Washington. Bursting with indignation the American Newspaper Publishers Association girded for another fray, in which their field general would be, as always, Lawyer Elisha Hanson. Chubby, suave, immensely clever, with a facility for catching witnesses off guard with abrupt questions, Lawyer Hanson has long been the Press's No. i lobbyist in Washington...
...maintained. . . . Reduction in hours coupled with a decrease in weekly wages will do no good at all, for it amounts merely to a forced contribution to unemployment relief by the class least able to bear it. I have never believed that we should violently impose flat, arbitrary and abrupt changes on the economic structure but we can nevertheless work together in arriving at a common objective...
...Bourke-White, photography; Tony Sarg, puppets; Russell Patterson, illustrating; Arthur Murray, ballroom dancing. Instructors from Heckscher Foundation gave lessons in clay modeling, crayon and charcoal drawing, woodworking, metalworking, painting. Chosen to demonstrate the art of knitting were five Ziegfeld chorus girls. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt was brought to an abrupt halt by the sight of World's Champion Joe Pasco turning a punching bag into a rat-ta-tat-tatting blur with his fists, head, elbows, feet. ''My goodness!" she remarked. "Isn't he rapid...
...excellent example of the shortness of official French tempers last week was the abrupt dismissal of Emile Fabre as Director of the State-supported Comedic Frangaise. M. Fabre has run the Comédie since 1915, and like Jean Chiappe is dearly beloved by his underlings. His offense last week was producing a really popular play in his musty old theatre. Almost as soon as the Stavisky scandal broke Emile Fabre announced a performance of Shakespeare's Coriolanus. The house was packed. Every reference to corruption in high office was greeted with roars of applause. It seemed a pity...