Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they were "eager to earn an honest penny" rather than live on charity, more especially as they, ''at the risk of a broken pate," watered and fed these suffering cattle and drove them under "protection from the blazing sun," and most especially since less than 10% of our citizens belong to any A. F. of L. union, the 90% being outcasts, '"scabs" in the eyes of these union leaders, the same as the men who undertook to water this stock...
...their power as arbiters of the ultra-modern haute couture. They are not necessarily the most popularized, nor are they all heavily patronized by U. S. buyers. Regardless of who else might be included nearly every fashion expert would agree that in this group the following houses most decidedly belong: Vionnet, Lanvin, Augustabernard, Main-bocher, Molyneux and Schiaparelli...
Though only rich students can afford to belong to the Korps, all German university students have been mustered into a student organization under rigid Nazi control. In one case last April when a Nazi order transferred 5,000 students from Berlin's Friedrich Wilhelm University to the universities of Breslau and Königsberg, student discipline held fast. At Bonn and Heidelberg, however, young aristocrats began to have their doubts. They took to roaring student songs about Liberty and Freedom, songs they had voluntarily ceased to sing a few months before out of respect for the Nazi "Total State...
...Oscar von Hindenburg, so that when the President died there would be no annoying inheritance tax. Later gifts of adjoining estates brought Old Paul's acres up to 4,000 and an early act of Chancellor Hitler was to decree that this domain shall belong tax free to the House of Hindenburg so long as there shall be a Hindenburg direct male heir. To enemies of Hindenburg and Hitler this decree is a noxious bribe to win the President's support of Nazidom. It is, at least, a personal...
...Doubting Thomases may be divided roughly into two groups: First, those who seek special political privilege and, second, those who seek special financial privilege. . . . The toes of some people are being stepped on and are going to be stepped on. But these toes belong to the comparative few who seek to retain or to gain positions or riches or both by some short cut which is harmful to the greater good...