Word: butter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...standard of living has declined and there is chronic shortage of individual food items under Goring's Rearmament program of "Cannon instead of Butter." There are "Strength Through Joy" vacation treats and trips for workers on a grand scale which would have seemed incredible four years ago. In Germany the Protestants, Catholics and every other religious group except the Nazi mystics have been ruthlessly trampled by the State and the Jews have been legally reduced to a sub-citizen depressed class...
...contemporary in the U. S. theatre is so blessed with the Midas touch as George S. Kaufman. Sole author of only one show (The Butter and Egg Man-1925), from 1921 to 1935 he has year after year collaborated on such historic hits as Dnloy (1921), To the Ladies (1922), Merton of the Movies (1922), Helen of Troy, New York (1923), Beggar on Horseback (1924), The Cocoannts (1925), The Royal Family (1927), Animal Crackers (1928), June Moon (1929), Once in a Lifetime (1930), The Band Wagon (1931), Of Thee I Sing (1931), Dinner at Eight...
Vast was the consternation this week in anti-Fascist camps when nervous little Major Attlee went over to Paris and delivered a lecture in which he proposed to "Share the Empire" or at least its superabundance of resources with less fortunate nations, this being an obvious attempt to butter Germany and perhaps Italy as well...
Tough, triumphant and breathing not Butter but Might was the interview which Benito Mussolini gave to Adolf Hitler's personal Berlin newsorgan Volkischer Beobachter. Almost without exception every German has to read this paper and they knew Hitler must approve or he would have never ordered printed what Mussolini said. It knocked into a cocked hat any false notion that the recent British-Italian "friendship accord" (TIME, Jan. 11) would act as a brake on German efforts to ensure White victory in Spain...
This was fair Fascist-Nazi warning to British Laborites, on the eve of the House of Commons' reconvening this week, that Labor Party Leader Major Clement Richard Attlee has got to show whether his vitals are made of iron or of butter. It was scarcely worth denying that His Majesty's Government are now in cahoots against the Spanish Reds with Hitler and Mussolini...