Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police activity." he reported, "there were 187 deaths on British roads during Christmas week, compared to 160 in the previous week." Shrilled Clown Cantor, after Major Hore-Belisha had appealed for more careful driving, "If I were a girl I would never let a boy drive with one arm around...
Specifically old Governor Moret was dropped last week because he rejected a proposal by Premier Flandin to give business a shot in the arm. The proposal let the Bank of France announce that it will re-discount short-term Treasury bonds, issuing new currency or opening deposit accounts against the paper received. Since this operation in effect reduces the gold cover behind French money (now 80,1390 it tends to be inflationary. To M. Flandin's proposal M. Moret had but one answer, a quiet "mais non." Last week there was every indication that M. Tannery will...
German wags tell that once, arm in arm, Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Paul Joseph Goebbels, and Adolf Hitler strolled for half an hour on Unter den Linden. Nobody recognized them because Herr Göring was in civilian clothes, Herr Goebbels did not open his mouth, Herr Hitler had his hair brushed...
...Chapter 1934 of the great visitors book which men call History many a potent human being scrawled his name the twelvemonth past. But no man, however long his arm, could write his name so big as the name written by the longer arm of mankind. Neither micrometer nor yardstick was necessary to determine that the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was written bigger, blacker, bolder than all the rest...
...Toronto, Ontario, small Frank Williams toppled from his perch atop a ski-jump under repair, began an Soft, fall with a scream. Perched on a plank 15 ft. below, big Herman Bautzman heard the scream, stretched an arm, yanked small Frank Williams from the air and death...