Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clever, waspish, Jew-baiting Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, who is also Nazi district leader for Greater Berlin, was attributed the latest outburst. Cafés, cinema houses were searched for Jews. Down the Grenadierstrasse and Dragonerstrasse-both prominent Jewish streets-ran several hundred "Aryans" bent on pulling Jews out of their stores, painting their shopwindows with insulting signs. Schoolteachers lectured children not to associate with little Jews. On countless shopwindows appeared such inscriptions as "Jewish swine," "Out with the Jews," "Avoid this Jew," "The Jew- Our Sorrow!" "Jew, get out!" Whole streets were roped off while Jewish blocks were...
...Progressive faction, which believes in strong centralized authority, and the Unity faction headed by Vice President Mortimer and Mr. Frankensteen, which believes in greater local autonomy. That, in Mr. Martin's opinion, has led to U.A.W.'s "wildcat" strikes. Crux of last week's row was clever, self-assertive Fred C. Pieper, board member from Atlanta and chairman of U.A.W.'s newly created finance committee. According to President Martin's enemies, Mr. Pieper had pre-empted most of the executive authority at Detroit headquarters with no sanction except Mr. Martin's personal blessing. According...
...selling them something--be it an idea for the economic salvation of the nation or a simple old-fashioned gold brick. The appeal to people's emotions is often so subtly made that decisions of momentous importance to the nation are governed by whim and whimsy, simply because clever propaganda deprives people of their power to reason and think...
LORD BERNERS : THE TRIUMPH OF NEPTUNE (London Philharmonic; Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham; Columbia: 4 parts). Trickily instrumented, clever suite originally designed for one of Choreographer Balanchine's concoctions...
Escape This Night (by Robert Steiner & Leona Heyert; produced by Robinson Smith) will be remembered, if at all, as "the mystery story laid in the 42nd Street Public Library." For out of a welter of irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial crimes, what jut up solidly are Designer Harry Homers amazingly clever reproductions of Manhattan's famed library-reading room, Braille room, entrance lobby, even one of the snooty stone lions that guard the portals. Roaming through the vast institution with more sinister motives than are common to real life, a blind woman (Ellen Hall), her husband (Arnold Korff...