Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week. In a foreword, Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, of Manhattan's General Theological Seminary, estimated that one-tenth of Germany's Protestant pastors have defied the predominantly anti-Christian Nazi State and suffered the consequences. About two-thirds are lying low, hoping the storm will blow past. The remainder have either joined Germany's innumerable pagan cults or, as "German Christians." have sought to purge Christianity of its inconvenient elements. Purgers-in-chief have been the German Christian Bishop of Bremen, Dr. Heinz Weidemann, and Ludwig Miiller, the bullet-pated army chaplain whom Hitler appointed Reichsbischof...
...their thinking for them." Charlotte News: "The thing is, in its practical aspect, a desperate and precarious gamble. . . . If the President wins, it will be a famous victory. . . . But the chance is more than even that he won't win . . . and that will genuinely be the 'stunning blow...
...Soviet Union's "duty to protect . . . the interests and culture of the working masses everywhere." For this big job, he announced, Russia has adequate funds. The Deputies cheered for many minutes after Commissar Zverev climaxed: "We stand for Peace, but we are ready to give blow for blow! If need be, the whole people stands behind the army and the Communist Party and our great leader Stalin...
...London, Publisher Gannett's candidacy immediately hit a snag. "Bang the trumpet and blow the drum," began a sarcastic attack in Sir Walter Layton's pro-New Deal Star. "For the first time in history, an American Presidential boom-or boomlet-has been started in London." In the U. S., Columnist Heywood Broun gave Candidate Gannett "Hindiana, Hiowa and Harkansas." In Manhattan, the Daily News chortled: "If Lord Beaverbrook has his way . . . and Roosevelt runs against him-boy, what a dish Gannett will...
Since Douglas had demanded reorganization, this strategy called for appointment of a committee to study reorganization, then delay on the job long enough for the crisis to blow over. Accordingly, the governors voted for such a committee, gave Gay the right to appoint it. But Gay had seen the light. Viewing the crash (by then the Dow-Jones average had dropped to 113), the depression and Douglas' determination, Gay decided it was time to play ball. To the fury of the Old Guard, he appointed a genuinely liberal committee headed by a non-Exchange member, Carle Cotter Conway, dynamic...