Word: attained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...votes without regard to consistency. It promise a social and economic utopia for the masses, the class which ultimately controls the government through the ballot. Nordicus explains a cardinal Hitler principle when he says. "For every intelligent head there are ten stupid ones, whose votes, banded together, suffice to attain the desired end. Intelligent reasoning, according to Hitler, has no place among the modern masses...
...Hari tried unsuccessfully to hide his identity as victim in a blackmail plot under the pseudonym of "Mr. A." He saved himself $750,000, but had to call upon the British to attain his throne a year later. Since then Moslems in Kashmir have complained bitterly that all the best government places go to Hindus. Last autumn British troops saved his throne when the Mohammedans revolted. Reports last week said that 5,000 Hindus and Moslems have been killed in skirmishes since then. As fresh troops were being rushed across the Himalayas to save his throne again, Sir Hari suddenly...
...volumes, 1.353 carefully documented pages, Researcher Porter has stored all the available facts about the first & greatest of the Astor dynasty. Born the son of a butcher in the little German village of Waldorf, John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) became "first business man in America to attain colossal wealth." Author Porter considers him preeminent in his period, says: "Indeed it is doubtful whether in the art of buying and selling he has ever been approached, much less surpassed...
...little plans as "wagon bouncer," small-time "chiseler," labor terrorizer, robber, murderer, narcotic smuggler, and leader of a "mob" in liquor traffic, he becomes at least deserving of notice in the news. Yesterday showed that if he can acquire a nickname, be twenty-three times arrested in vain, and attain a certain facility in absorbing and dodging lead, he may be judged worthy of even top-column notice in Boston's most conservative paper...
Further, he is supposed to attain this knowledge from his college work. By majoring in such fields as government, economics, and history they assume that sufficient broadness can be gained to qualify the young hopeful for this truly important position. Any man of such talent would immediately find a place which had in it a far greater future, at least from a worldly point of view...