Word: discords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into German politics last week a big red apple of discord was flung by Minister of Labor Adam Stegerwald. Up to now it has been very much the fashion for German statesmen to paint their country as poor, to picture their businessmen as pressed for cash, dependent on foreign loans. With blazing frankness Herr Stegerwald revealed that today the German moneyed class have on loan abroad more than eight billion marks ($2,000,000,000). This sum would suffice to meet Germany's "crushing payments" under the Young Plan for four years...
...ways in which parents can be bad for a child, as compiled by Philosopher Russell: 1) lack of love for the child; 2) possessive love for the child; 3) overstimulation (too many cinemas, plays); 4) too much repression; 5) discord between father & mother; 6) failure to inspire children to confidence...
Last week when the Yale Daily News printed as direct quotations from Herbert Hoover a set of views in clashing discord with this accepted presidential custom, it was small wonder that the editors of great metropolitan newspapers picked up the story for first-page reprinting. The News, which has been presenting a series of especially prepared statements on ''leadership" by public leaders, quoted the President as follows...
...almost 60 years since I experienced the jubilation which swept the whole German people upon achievement of unity-the occasion of the founding of the Reich. I cannot believe that this spirit has vanished and yielded to permanent political and domestic discord. Despite and because of the present distress we must come to our senses and again become an entity with the thought 'Deutschland Uber Attes...