Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temporize with Nazis, had been given the backhanded accolade of "a reasonable man" by the pagan Nazi ideologist, Dr. Alfred Rosenberg. Suddenly, last fortnight, Cardinal Innitzer's palace was sacked by an obviously stage-managed Nazi mob. Last week the Cardinal was, to Viennese Nazis, a "black dog," a "traitor," a "political priest." To the rest of the Catholic world he was a hero. All this was because he had advised Ostmark Catholics to proclaim their faith, and had spoken up for religious marriages, religious education of Catholic youth...
...police, who also watched narrowly those who read their church bulletin boards, pasted with posters urging them to marry in the church. In his palace Cardinal Innitzer switched on his radio, listened to an open-air rally at which 100,000 Nazis shouted "Pfui Innitzer!" and "Hang the black dog!" during a furious speech by Nazi Commissioner Josef Bürckel. Calling the Cardinal a friend of Jews, burly Herr Bürckel declared that negotiations with the Catholics to settle the matter of religious schools and seminaries-hitherto kept secret-were definitely off. Cardinal Innitzer switched off his radio...
Coach Earl Blaik brings the strongest offensive team which Coach Dick Harlow has ever faced in his four-year tenure here. The enemy starting backfield is one of the dog-gonedest scoringest concoctions ever put together, with Captain Bob MacLeod, who has hit pay territory 19 times in 19 straight frays, leading the procession. After him comes Bill "Mudder" Hutchinson and fullback Colby Howe, both fleet-footed pigskin toters who can fill the bill at either end of aerials. There is also sophomore Sanford Courter, starting quarterback, who has given promise of being another in a decade of great Dartmouth...
...swooning at the sound of a tire blowout, was pictured with Reporter Hudson Hawley, whom Wally made famous as the "Salut-ing Demon." In the hectic offices of The Stars and Stripes, Wally found other models: Editor Harold Ross, now editor of The New Yorker; Poet Tip Bliss, whose dog tried to bite General Pershing on his only visit to the office; Colyumnist Franklin Pierce Adams (F. P. A.); Mark Watson, now Sunday editor of the Baltimore Sun; Treasurer Adolph Shelby Ochs, now general manager of the Chattanooga Times...
...Maritime Commission agreed that nothing slows up a ship line like barnacles on the top. Giving final approval to a deal whereby the Commission took over the devalued Dollar Steamship Lines, Inc., Ltd. (TIME, Aug. 29), Chairman Emory S. Land, with the bluntness of an old sea dog, put the blame for the Dollar Lines' unhappy state squarely at the door of its former owners. He snapped: "They adopted every conceivable device to drain the earnings and the working capital from the company as rapidly as possible...