Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this diplomatic insult Adolf Hitler, who last month opened Berlin's Motor Show (TIME, Feb. 25), revisited its twelve acres of booths last week, talked loudly if hoarsely with his entourage and neither coughed nor sneezed. At the Foreign Office correspondents were told, "The White Paper was a blow to us, and we have given the British blow for blow!" In Der Volklscher Beobachter, Dr. Rosenberg took the line that Herr Hitler had put something over on His Majesty's Government...
English Mirth. Specialists at putting Europe's upstarts neatly in their places are the unruffled, uninsultable civil servants of the British Foreign Office. They knew exactly how to cure Herr Hitler's cold, and it never occurred to them to return crude blow for blow. In the House of Commons a quiet remark by Sir John Simon that Hitler was "suffering from the cold he caught in the Saar," evoked hearty English mirth, painful when reported to inferiority-complexed Nazis. Next Sir John let it be known that Etonianly elegant Lord Privy Seal Anthony Eden would pass Berlin...
...jitters," wishing they were dead. Once in a while one encourages another to "buck up," but for the most part pessimism is the order of the day. A female member of the British aristocracy who has been living with an insane exiled Grand Duke actually manages to blow her brains out. The rest, gigolos, rich nymphomaniacs, Fascist financiers, drunks, drift on toward perdition, a fate from which at the last moment a clean young U. S. newspaperman manages to save a clean young U. S. millionairess. De Luxe was first announced several years ago for production by the Provincetown Theatre...
Since the New Deal's legalists had hung NRA's power to regulate Industry on the constitutional peg of affecting "the flow of interstate commerce," the Nields opinion was a potent body blow to the Administration. And, as if anticipating an appeal from his decision on "emergency" grounds, Judge Nields added: "The suggestion that recurrent hard times suspend constitutional limitations or cause manufacturing operations to so affect interstate commerce as to subject them to regulation by the Congress borders on the fantastic and merits no serious consideration...
...purpose of 1) modernizing her army, 2) hoarding steel in case of war, and 3) constructing naval auxiliaries. "The junk piled up in American backyards during five years of depression," wrote he. "is helping to forge a modern, Oriental fighting machine against the day when the bugles blow again...