Word: butts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another of Göring's men last week got a boost in power and prestige. Hitler named Major General Dr. Fritz Todt (rhymes with butt) Minister for Arms & Munitions, gave him the immediate job of speeding up production of armaments...
...good days, when American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Co. were separate companies making (together) $20,000,000 a year (their joint 1939 net profit: $3,712,193), U. S. plumbing was both the butt and admiration of Europeans. Radiator's chairman was autocratic Clarence Mott Woolley. By the time they consolidated in 1929, they had an estimated stake of $35,000,000 in foreign plants to make goods that would raise Europe's standard of plumbing to that of the U. S. Of their 15 European plants, nearly half were in Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain. In that...
...TIME erred. Many a Founding Father-Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Elbridge Gerry, Alexander Hamilton-flatly assumed that any law inconsistent with the Constitution would be voided by the courts. Even Thomas Jefferson, butt of John Marshall's extra-legal lecture in the Marbury v. Madison case, expressly admitted the Court's right to decide constitutionality of laws, although he unflaggingly criticized the Court until his death...
Today the picture is vastly altered. U.S. ships cannot enter the war zone, so that no longer do our diplomats have to butt their heads against an unyielding British blockade, nor fear torpedo attacks by a sullen Germany. Of course this meant giving up profitable trade, and here lies the danger, for powerful shipping interests may try to circumvent the law, and a doubtfully neutral Administration can help them do it. Our other new neutrality tool is the Johnson Act, which forbids loans to nations that have defaulted in former war loans, meaning England and France. This is a potent...
...stepped Sheriff Hall, one hand on a gun butt at his hip. It was a situation few sheriffs would like to face. But he faced it. "You've always known me to play fair with you boys," drawled he. "There's only two women in there." With calm deliberation he walked through the mob, got in a car, drove off. As he explained afterwards, he had been on duty 38 hours and he needed sleep...