Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once again Stagemanager Goebbels pushed the button and the obedient German people in every village in the land opened their mouths and sang the old Dutch thanksgiving hymn. Dankgebet, which begins ''God make us free." Written by Adrian Valerius in 1597, the most popular German translation is that of Josef Weyl. Forty million Nazi voices boomed out the words: "Wir treten zum Beten vor Gott dem Gerechten" ("We step up before God the Just to Pray...
...sole formal announcement of what no one needed to be told. ¶At Norris, Tenn. a siren shrieked, eight sluice gates slipped shut, a lake began to form inch by inch behind the dam. In Washington 500 miles away, Franklin Roosevelt sat with his finger on the siren button, saying, "Norris Dam is a practical symbol of better life. . . ." ¶Two and a half years ago Federal Coordinator of Transportation Joseph Eastman was given the job of working out means by which railroads could cooperate to save themselves and the public money. Before his job expires next June...
...Reinhold Carlson of Manhattan got up to talk about palsies caused by rough handling during birth the physicians enthusiastically rose and cheered him. Injured in that way. Dr Carlson was once obliged to wear boots oversized pants and slipover sweaters be cause his unruly hands could not lace am button his clothes. People treated him a an idiotic cripple. Eventually his innate wit and grit took command of his muscles He went to Princeton, to Yale, opened clinic and two private schools for treatment of the defect (TIME, May 30, 1932) The basis of treatment, Dr. Carlson saic in Detroit...
Better still, thousands of scabs jumped at the chance to take the empty jobs, and, owing to the moronic simplicity of driving new-fangled bell and button machines, tenants, even the Park Avenue Parasites, and the Wall Street Nepotes, quickly learned how to run their own elevators. So the strikers thought they had to resort to violence, breaking windows, bashing skulls, even battling the officers...
...having flown his true colors as a traitor to the masses in the purge of Marcantonio, issued a few proclamations regarding Public Health, and tried to arrange parleys for peace, where naturally intelligence has an unfair advantage. All to delude the elevator boys to return to their Hell of button-pushing and servility...