Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Propaganda, subsidies and in many cases direct intimidation so swelled the Nazi Party in Czechoslovakia that the Government ordered it banned in October 1933 together with all other parties that would not subscribe to the principles of democracy. Since then Berlin's foreign policy has grown wiser and shrewder. There suddenly appeared on Czechoslovakia's political horizon an earnest, near-sighted German-speaking gymnasium instructor named Konrad Henlein, organizer of a party known as the Sudetendeutsch Heimat Front. Ceaselessly he has repeated that he takes no orders from Adolf Hitler, has no intention of preaching political union with...
...process by which Jimmy Savo, son of a Bronx cobbler, worked his way into the world's most impressive theatrical organization was long and disjointed. Twenty years ago he was a burlesque bum. Before that he had been an amateur in direct competition with Joe Cook, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Fanny Brice on Manhattan's lower East Side. In fact, these striplings once refused to appear in an amateur show with Savo because he was so small and forlorn that the audience always applauded him the prize out of pure pity...
...understand there is a ready sale of these ''jokers" to garages, gas stations etc. For this reason I wished to buy them direct and sent in the patent number, which was the only clue. The letter in reply stated that the patent (# 354934) had been issued in 1886 to Francis V. Raymond of Buffalo for a Beating and Mixing Machine...
...State as majority stockholder) are highly efficient, but to get from almost anywhere to anywhere else in Denmark needs a great deal of ferrying. Chief customer for Danish dairy products is Great Britain. The new bridge, crossing the Little Belt between Fünen and Jutland, is on the direct line between Copenhagen and London. At the same time that the Little Belt was spanned, a new service of high speed streamlined trains was inaugurated. Bridge and trains between them will cut the time between Copenhagen and Esbjerg almost 50%. As the service is extended it should also materially lower...
...circulating the petition, the Liberal Club made no extravagant claims. The calmness of the approach explains to a large extent its encouraging results. Direct action, however minor, combating the current tendency towards exaggerated "Americanism," is definitely valuable--more so than volumes of speeches. A petition has a dramatic appeal that literary efforts can never achieve...