Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed "Iron Man" of German finance, blunt Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. who fought the Fatherland's battles over the Young Plan (TIME, Jan. 27, 1930), came out for the first time last week in support of Adolf Hitler...
Annoyed by this blunt suggestion that he is persona non grata even to Spanish Royalists in Paris, large-lipped Alfonso XIII dismissed them curtly, snapped. "There has been no development in the politics of my beloved Spain which would warrant such action...
These preliminaries over last week. Delegate Matsuoka hurried on to Geneva and presented to the League a 40,000-word rebuttal to the Lytton report on Manchuria which she had made Manchukuo. It was simple and blunt. Japan denies that in invading Manchuria she violated either the League Covenant, the Kellogg Pact, or the Nine Power Treaty guaranteeing Chinese sovereignty. Japan denies that Manchuria is an integral part of China. Japan denies that her army acted except in self defense. Once again Japan makes the excuse that she merely protected a revolt-started by Manchurian nationalists. Japan will neither accept...
Just whom the police were to shoot & kill was not stated by blunt, beefy Dr. Franz Bracht, the grim Federal Commissioner for the State of Prussia who gave the orders. Just about the time Dr. Bracht boomed "Shoot to kill!" the Berlin Traffic Co. notified 1,000 of its 22,000 striking employes that they are definitely fired and will never get their jobs back. The 1,000 firings made it needless to fire shots. Cowed strikers came back to work. Since Berlin was carried by Communists in the national elections (TIME, Nov. 14) Dr. Bracht, onetime Mayor of Essen...
...that composer's excited and undecipherable penmanship, have long afforded musical technicians all entertaining field of controversy. Mr. McEwen's introduction to an Unpublished Volume of the Pianoforte Sonatas of Beethoven, dealing as it does with the intricacies of editorship, is a book primarily for experts. The blunt layman who undertakes one of Beethoven's Sonatas, or even an excellent amateur, for that matter, after observing the general marks of performance appearing in any of the various editions, can best answer the question of "How should this music be played?" by the best interpretation which he himself can give...