Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Chase National Bank, hurrying to defend the interests of U. S. holders of German short-term credits against the demand of France that Reparations be given priority (TIME, Dec. 7). To Berlin just ahead of Banker Wiggin hurried Politician Hitler. Flinging himself into a big armchair at the Kaiserhof Hotel on the afternoon that Wall Street had its Hitler scare, he surprisingly declared: "Germany cannot pay both her political [Reparations] and her commercial [short-term credit] debts. For my part I reject the payment of political debts which are the result of extortion and have no legal...
Lambasting France from his Kaiserhof armchair last week, fiery Fascist Hitler boomed: "As a party we emphatically reject the system of political extortion indulged in by a nation saturated with arms and gold! . . . We are not Carthage nor is France Rome, and it should be recalled that Rome subdued Carthage single handed" (i.e. France subdued Germany only with the aid of allies who may yet desert France...
...MOST armchair explorers are like the reviewer, they will imagine that the danger of the jungle lies in the ferocious beasts that slink about among the undergrowth. Such, as anyone who reads "Green Hell" will find out, is not the case. Insects clouds of them are the real bete noire of the adventurer, and the smaller they are the worse they...
...this beast "safe?" Should a 65-year-old monarch ride a prancing, snorting cavalry mount? Discreet inquiry revealed that Steed B102 was nicknamed, by the cavalrymen who were his intimates, "Old Armchair...
...elections, and Austria will go to the polls on Nov. 9. Within two days after his appointment, Minister of Interior Prince von Starhemberg manifestoed as follows to his Heim wehr: "Today we stand in the Government, tomorrow we must conquer Parliament, not to rest at ease in an armchair but to build up a new State, a Heimwehr State, on the ruins of the old Parliament of parties. Comrades, close your ranks for the Heimwehr attack...