Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wood, Viscount Halifax of Monk Bretton in the West Riding of York, Baron Irwin of Kirby Underdale York, Knight of the Garter, onetime Viceroy of India (TIME, May u, 1931, et ante), today Lord President of the Council and Government Leader in the House of Lords. In London, the abrupt decision of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that Lord Halifax should go to visit Adolf Hitler last week came more & more to be regarded as a "humiliation" to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who is not pro-German...
...Austrian friend last week gave the press an account of Dr. Hanfstaengl's abrupt departure from Germany: He got a telephone call asking him to go to Spam as a special courier of Hitler, hurried to the waiting plane. At Leipzig, where the plane halted, he became definitely uneasy when a group of Hitler special guards climbed into the ship. At this point Putzy opened a letter just handed to him. It said that since he thought so little of General Franco and so much of the Red Government in Spain he was to receive an opportunity to meet...
...with the rank of Air Marshal in reward for his Century of Progress flight, embracing him publicly while ecstatic Romans huzzahed, and then packing him off to be Governor of Libya, puncturing the world bubble of his fame, so that today not everyone remembers Italo Balbo. This sort of abrupt shift Il Duce constantly employs as a method, calls it ""changing the guard," keeps even Fascism's greatest dignitaries ever on the qui vive, for no Cabinet Minister can be sure the next ring on his telephone may not mean promotion, transfer or eclipse...
Last week he also dismissed the Committee, whose Chairman Howard S. Cullman at once demanded to know why his group had been dismissed "in so abrupt a manner without so much as an explanation." All year there was talk that Director Weaver would resign, but he thrust out his square jaw, snapped that he would "not be forced out" until he had accomplished something...
...Radio sets would be provided with three buttons marked "Present" (tuned to the station taking the vote), "Yes" and "No." Each button would close a circuit through a 100-ohm resistance. When a number of buttons were pushed in concert at the announcer's request, the abrupt increase of the power load would be recorded as a sharp peak on a graph in the power station, and from the size of the peak the approximate number of listeners voting at that instant could be calculated...