Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many are the figures with a hand in Krüger's fate: blunt Autocrat Otto Klenk ("Klenk is Klenk and signs himself Klenk"): Jewish Lawyer Geyer, with a frail body and a passion for logic and justice; Hessreiter, rich man by grace of a business of which he is ashamed; Dr. Bichler, blind, surly old peasant, who rules Bavaria from behind the scenes; Communist Kaspar Pröckl, bitter and untidy engineer who serves Reindl and cannot hate him successfully; Johanna Krain, friend of Krüger, who champions him, marries him in prison out of pity; Jacques Tüverlin, artist-spectator...
...grim, humorless Senator William Henry ("Mac") McMaster, insurgent Republican up for reelection, loves the Hoover Administration no more than does lean-faced, witty Governor William John Bulow, his Democratic senatorial opponent, South Dakota this year is a political battlefield practically barren of national issues. However Nominee Bulow's blunt comedy-Will Rogers once called him "funnier than I am"-has saved their campaign from stagnation. Last week he declared: "They ain't any great issues out here, I guess. Mac's got a job and I want it." Nominee Bulow is famed for his tobacco chewing...
...Saved!": "In our usual blunt, precise Fascist style, without euphemism and without reticence, we admit," said Il Duce, "that our general economic situation has grown worse since last October, when the American crisis burst with the violence of dynamite...
...ways of spending France's money for the benefit of France's army. To the casual observer, France with 467.986 men under arms has the best army in the world today. It is not good enough for Minister Maginot. Frightened by the bellicose posturings of Mussolini, the blunt pre-election speeches of Germany's bad boy, Cabinet Minister Gottfried R. Treviranus (TiME, Aug. 25), he has been even more impressed by a little book written by that hyper-acute general, Hans von Seeckt, organizer of the German Reichswehr. It is General von Seeckt's premise that the Allies, in limiting...
...spoke blunt Gottfried R. Treviranus, Minister Without Portfolio in the cabinet of Chancellor Bruning, to cheering crowds assembled last week before the steps of the Reichstag. Six hours later the protests started, piled up in wave upon wave of outraged French and Polish anguish to a holocaust of denunciation...