Word: bulles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delayed timing of this communiqué meant at the very least that Czechoslovakia was subjected to a full day of increased "pressure" and agonizing uncertainty. It caused John Bull to cut momentarily the figure of a man who starts to saw off the leg of a friend when he sees the ankle grabbed by an octopus, as Cartoonist Jerry Doyle of the New York Post observed (see cut). Editor Dawson, three days after his "sawing" editorial, made amends. He praised the speech of Czechoslovak President Benes (see p. 19) as "a model of what a public utterance should be," denounced...
...Nazi Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels made a screaming oration to Party officials in which he flayed former U. S. Ambassador to Germany Dr. William E. Dodd and climaxed "President Benes of Czechoslovakia owes his election to the Communist vote!" Then, Der Führer signaled fortissimo, and beefy, bull-voiced No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring tore into a two-hour speech of such exhausting fury that afterwards his doctors rushed him out of Nürnberg suffering from what they said was acute sore throat and inflamed lymph glands in his right leg. The General, the doctors...
...illiterate population are Shiites but even the literate Government clique-including youthful King Ghazi, who belongs to the opposed Sunnite sect-sympathize with the Arabs of Palestine. Anti-Jewish propaganda is, in the circumstances, anti-British propaganda. Last spring both Sunnites and Shiites relished a poster depicting John Bull holding a pair of scales in which an Arab, an Indian and a Negro in one tray were outweighed by a fat, long-nosed...
...Alaska: 1) Harold Le Clair Ickes & Bride accepted carved totem pole pins from Indian schoolchildren at Ketchikan; 2) Senator Reynolds of North Carolina slew a 3,000-lb. bull walrus which, wounded, charged his hunting party's boats off Wainwright...
Kick. In early 1937, security prices reached 194 on the Dow-Jones industrial averages, climax of a two-year bull market, then collapsed with a world-wide break in commodity prices. By July, prices once more had begun a slow rise, although volume of trading was unbelievably thin. It was actually the beginning of Depression II, but almost to a man the brokerage community believed what Charles Gay put into his Exchange report-that too strict regulation by SEC was to blame. Wrote President Gay in his usual mild way: "I am fearful that, in an effort to cure what...