Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year cultivated 34,471,000 acres, grew the huge total of 18,945,022 bales, had to fall back on Government loans, wound up with a carry-over sufficient to depress this year's prices. So Mr. Wallace invoked the powers-granted him in the new AAA, instituted drastic control, got a majority of farmers to approve by referendum. Last week Mr. Wallace's analysts announced the result: a cultivated acreage of 26,904,000, lower than any since the Department of Agriculture began to keep tabs in 1909, and a prospective crop of about...
Beginning July 1, all "State members"-which includes Jews and other minorities-will be subjected to a draft compelling them to serve on any assigned job, commanded by the Reich Institute for Labor Placement & Unemployment Insurance. This drastic decree will be applied to all regardless of race, sex or occupation. While Nazi authorities gave only vague hints as to the true meaning of the labor draft law, they did deny that it was a war measure. To the disenfranchised, persecuted Jews the decree meant they would soon be working on Führer Hitler's projects. Perhaps the best...
...beaten up by little "Aryans," to be addressed as "Du Jude" by the teachers. Since the beginning of the Hitler regime, thousands of Jews have moved to Berlin, hoping to escape notice there, believing that the presence of diplomats and foreign correspondents in the capital would prevent too drastic persecution by the Nazi Government. For the last two years anti-Jewish activity has, in fact, taken place largely outside of Berlin. Last week, however, this condition changed suddenly and Berlin was treated to as severe a series of anti-Semitic persecutions as has yet taken place in the Third Reich...
News-vendors, who are constantly in contact with the public, must look respectable and belong to an honorable corporation. They will have to wear polished shoes and a brown blouse extending below their knees; and they must shave daily. The police will be empowered to take drastic action against defaulters...
...astonished to learn that 28 people intelligent enough to be able to write should hold to such an error. What do they think he is? A conservative? A radical? A revolutionist? A fascist? What nonsense! A radical, as everybody but your correspondents knows, is a man who proposes drastic changes in the status quo, and the establishment of new institutions, new measures, to correct existing evils. ... A revolutionist differs from a radical in believing that the change will be convulsive and violent, and also in believing that a dictatorship will be necessary. . . . When a reactionary advocates drastic changes...