Word: chief
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black silk knee breeches. The Führer received seven of the delegation. Their program in Germany was to include visits to the Limes Line, the Krupp works and the Zeppelin plant at Friedrichshafen, and a short ride on a German warship as the guest of Reich Commander in Chief of the Navy Admiral Eric Raeder...
...independence and neutrality. The political atmosphere indicated that a major national crisis was at hand and that this would probably be the tell-tale week. Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, in a big patriotic rally, said that a "period of nerve-testing" was at hand. "The time is difficult," Press Chief Urho Toivola admitted. "We feel our freedom and independence are threatened." Early this week 300 Finns gathered outside the Helsinki Hotel at which U. S. Minister H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld stayed, and sang The Star-Spangled Banner before going on to serenade the Norwegian, Danish, Swedish Ministers...
Professor Rugg's critics accused him of disrespect to history and learning. His chief critic, practical Professor Howard E. Wilson, then at University of Chicago, investigated schools to see how the Rugg "fusion" plan worked, pronounced it a failure. But Professor Wilson found that he could pin no roses on the old-fashioned textbooks, either. Three years ago he investigated old-fashioned upState New York schools for the New York Regents, learned that many of the State's future citizens thought that habeas corpus was a disease, liabilities were assets and poverty was best defined as "the boyhood...
...Shoshone-Bannock Indians in Blackfoot, Ida. conferred tribal citizenship upon Quot-jasonah-ah ("Buffalo Horns" -better known as Clarence A. B^ottolf-sen) and Pah-zy-tse-ze-yak Kap-je-tah ("Heap Big Potato Chief"-better known as Lewis O. Barrows), the Governors of Idaho and Maine...
...cuts, then watched the whole country go hog-wild over a headline which twisted a few forthright words in one of his speeches. The muckrakers were abroad in the land and Taft lacked T. R.'s flair for handling them. The great "scandal" of his administration, and a chief cause of Roosevelt's resentment, was drummed up by Norman Hapgood of Cottier's against Secretary of the Interior Ballinger. Taft knew, and Pringle proves, that the evidence was inaccurate. Taft stuck by Ballinger and fired Roosevelt's protege, Gilford Pinchot, for joining in the clamor...