Word: crimping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Faces were glum at the Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment last week. Ruefully, prominent propagandists admitted that autocratic President Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank had just put a severe crimp in the world-wide activities of their club-footed idol, Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, gnomish Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment...
Britain could do nothing about anti-Japanese quotas for the Dominions, but ardently she hoped that they would follow suit. Because the British Dominions supply much of the raw materials on which Japanese industrial economy is dependent, they appeared none too eager last week to crimp their own exports. In Australia the Melbourne Argus (which last week won a University of Missouri School of Journalism honor medal, see p. 22) put it bluntly: "Australia has no complaint against Japan who is a good customer for her wheat and wool. Australia, as is natural from her geographical position, has found good...
...pronounced his benison on its work. One shadow clouded the celebration. Last February died the "Seamen's Saint," Dr. Archibald Romaine Mansfield who for 38 years was connected with the Institute. A stalwart man of God, Dr. Mansfield spent his early years battling the waterfront saloons and "crimp" boarding houses in which sailors were drugged and shanghaied. One young man who helped fight the crimps in court was Lawyer Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1913 Dr. Mansfield put up the Institute's big building, in 1917 the bigger annex costing $3,000,000. Now the largest sailors' home...
...Kingdom Coming, Author Bradford has turned the trick: neatly sidestepping the hoodoo of black-face minstrel-showmanship and the voodoo of Harlem, he has written a grown-up novel about Negroes of the Old South. Grammy (full name: Telegram) knew that his daddy, Messenger, and his mother, Crimp, were superior slaves. He could not figure out why their master should have sent them from New Orleans way up to his plantation on the Red River-especially since Messenger was such a wonderful coachman and Crimp such a good cook. But when Crimp's baby came, and it was yellow...
Such an alliance would crimp if not permanently wreck the French military supremacy of Europe. At the very beginning of the Hitler Chancellorship it was an idea with which Il Duce toyed pleasantly. What he did not realize was the speed with which Hitlerite groups were spawning in southeastern Europe. Austrian Nazis had already outdistanced the older Austrian Fascist group, the Heimwehr, as a political force. They were springing up in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, even Rumania, and all taking their orders from Handsome Adolf. In Fulda three weeks ago a conference of German bishops announced that good Catholics need no longer...