Word: brande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tufts played its best brand of ball before a capacity crowd. The Jumbos presented a tightly-knit defense and broke up Crimson passes time and time again. The Feslermen were never able to get a fast-breaking attack started, and their scoring was limited to an occasional basket by Charley Lutz or Homer Peabody. The latter turned in the evening's best defensive job as he held center Charley Tibbs to six points...
...German Republic's birth and in the craving of large sections of the politically immature German people for strong, masterful leadership. Democracy in Germany was conceived in the womb of military defeat. It was the Republic which put its signature (unwillingly) to the humiliating Versailles Treaty, a brand of shame which it never lived down in German minds...
That Nazi plans have been carefully worked out was evident last week when the German press speculated on the possibilities of a brand-new nation of 45,000,000 inhabitants springing out of eastern Europe, and printed a map of future "Great Ukraine." Most of the new State would be carved out of the Soviet Union, where 30,000,000 Ukrainians live under the rule of Dictator Joseph Stalin, but a sizable chunk would also come out of Poland (3,200,000 Ukrainians) and a generous slice out of Rumania (800,000 Ukrainians...
...bright and brand new idea in U. S. economy, as opposed to "directed economy," is, of course, that Government should spend as the tide of private industry ebbs, and vice versa. Last week Chair-man Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board told Manhattan bankers that since private industry is still not ready to take up the burden the Government has no choice but to continue pump-priming...
Meanwhile, the particular brand of spending which is on the way, with hearty approval on all sides, is rearmament. Last week Banking declared that it would be a "Business stimulant of first importance in the immediate future." Like all spending, the blessings of rearmament are short-lived. It helped England for a year but last week England's plight was reflected in the fact that the pound sterling was under such pressure that the price of gold in London went to the highest level in history ($34.70). There were persistent rumors that further devaluation of the pound...