Word: axman
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...week's end, even the G.O.P.'s most ardent axman, New York's John Taber, conceded that there might be something in OIC, after all. If the "drones, the loafers, and the incompetents" were weeded out, said Taber, maybe his appropriations committee could see its way clear to allowing OIC $5 to $6 million. The Senate might appropriate even more...
...that the outside world knew on Feb. 22 was that Hans and Maria Scholl and Adrian Probst had been beheaded. Since then other Munich citizens have laid their heads on the block before a white-gloved axman: Kurt Huber, a professor of psychology for 17 years; a lad who exchanged a leg at Stalingrad for the Iron Cross, First Class; at least nine other students. By last week it was apparent that the Nazis were worried. There were more arrests at Munich and a close watch on students at the schools. No one outside Germany could tell for certain...
Their guerrilla slayers had bagged a couple of prizes. One of the dead was Major General Walter Stahlecker, a Himmler axman who specialized in bringing the blessings of the master race to conquered territories. Beside him was his Chief of Staff, Colonel Hans Nockmann...
Last February, in St. Petersburg, Fla., died Apostle Reed Smoot, still isolationist, still bitter at Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade agreements, which partially nullified the still-existing Smoot-Hawley Act. And last week, in Salem, Ore., death came to Willis Hawley, 77, the Oregon axman who had helped chop down the economic foundations of the world...
Novelist Margaret Mitchell, who put Atlanta back on the literary map, will christen the cruiser Atlanta, ∙∙Now that President Roosevelt has gone back to the old Thanksgiving, Republican Governor Sumner Sewall has proclaimed the new Thanksgiving for the first time in Maine. ∙∙ An unidentified axman vainly tried to decapitate Sabrina, the bronze nymph for whom 80 generations of Amherst classes have fought one another. ∙∙ Prophet Wilbur Glen Voliva of Zion, Ill. predicted a bad end for the dictators by plunging into a lake of fire (Revelation 21:8). ∙∙ Dr. Samuel Harden Church...