Word: democratic
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government is recognized by Russia but not by the U.S. and Britain), is the lowest paid chief of state in Europe. Like all Austrian government employes, he receives 150 shillings ($15) a month. As Chancellor, Dr. Renner, a longtime Social Democrat, provisionally holds the presidency and portfolios of Foreign and Military Affairs. Of his nine ministers, three are members of the Volkspartei (old Christian Socialists), two are Socialists, two Communists and two without party affiliation...
...business (Bread), birth control (Seed), radical youth (Bricks Without Straw); of a heart ailment; in Palo Alto, Calif. Brother of the late Author Frank Norris, he was the husband of Author Kathleen Norris, who was in many ways his exact opposite number: she was an America Firster, a Democrat, Catholic and dry, he a rousing interventionist, Republican, Episcopalian and dispenser of highballs to their ranch guests...
Like the Tune. Hardly had Aller time to snort "ridiculous" before irate Nebraskans rose up to smack down Democrat Boren. The sale price of Nebraska Power, said the Omaha Committee, was set after months of negotiations, valuations by two private firms. Since the sale, the Committee has paid off $600,000 on the purchase. It hopes to save another $324,000 yearly by calling in the $7,452,300 in preferred stock, which pays dividends of 6% and 7%, replace it with bonds paying 2½% interest. Committeemen were sure that Boren had been needled into his blast...
Careful to speak before the House, so that he could not be sued for libel, Democrat Boren charged: "Two men . . . are the chief instigators of 'Swindle, Inc.' The [foremost] is a Wall Street financial agent, one Guy C. Myers, known as 'Flash' Myers to his friends back in Montana before he made a hurried exit from that state. . . . His opposite number among the holding company gang is Howard L. Aller, president of American Power & Light...
...Democrat Boren's "conspiracy" collapsed. In a master-weaseled statement he promptly said that his inquiry was merely "to begin a study of what appears to be an example of what might be an evasion of the purpose of the Holding Company Act." Then, having summoned only two witnesses before his committee, he hastily called off his probe for the summer...