Word: curbings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More than 100,000 thoroughly punished peasants were released from their harsh exile, sent back on joyously clattering trains to help till the 225,000,000 Soviet acres thus far sown. Best of all, from the peasant's standpoint. Dictator Stalin created an All-Union Procuratorial Department to curb and supervise his strong-arm agents: the Gay-Pay-Oo, the militia, the criminal police...
...inspectors from $31.50 & $49 to $29.50 as part of last year's economy budget. Lord Trenchard discovered that the Police Federation, an organization of policemen covering all Britain, was ''deliberately fomenting discontent against the government." The Cabinet meeting hurriedly prepared a bill to "curb hotheads among the police." The 86% of unsolved burglaries was a black-eye to Scotland Yard's reputation. Lord Trenchard made three suggestions: removal of the rule providing that higher police officers must first pass through the ranks; greater insistence on the educational qualifications of candidates: establishment of a "police college...
Died. Frank Theodore Hulswit, 57, onetime utilities tycoon; when he fell/jumped from his apartment on the fifth floor of Manhattan's Hotel Astor. President of United Light & Power Co. since 1910, he resigned, lost a reputed $10,000,000 when his New York Curb Exchange bull pool in the company's stock collapsed in 1926. Next year he came back as president of American Commonwealths Power Corp., was elected a director of United Light & Power...
Nazis Amuck. A Dictator, once he feels secure in the saddle, always tries to curb and discipline his followers who have invariably run more or less amuck. The U. S. Embassy reported to the German Government last week eight cases of assault by Nazis upon U. S. citizens (seven of them Jews) in the Reich, received no apology, only "official regrets." Throughout the Reich German Jews were beaten in numbers (censored) which apparently ran into hundreds...
...geography and history in the Havana High School, newspaper director and censor, was well known as organizer of President Machado's ruffianly strong-arm squad, the "Partida de la Porra" (Party of the Bludgeon). What he got was no taxi. A green automobile swung in to the curb. Somebody fired both barrels of a sawed-off shotgun. Sixteen slugs plowed through his chest, killed him instantly. One of the first at the scene of the assassination was Brigadier Antonio Ainciart, head of the national police, who put in a busy morning chasing reporters and smashing cameras. In the suburbs...