Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Daily News headline put it, the Saint Gustloff murder case had become a "trial of Jews, Nazis and Switzerland itself." Eager to convince the furious Führer that they were on the right side of the Nordic fence, the Federal Council last week introduced a drastic, antiCommunist bill making even the most innocent Swiss flirtations with Moscow a penal offense...
Putting their Nordic heads together to see what could be done to make The Fatherland a still more fit place for Aryan heroes, Der Führer Adolf Hitler and Minister-President Hermann Wilhelm Göring last week launched a new series of laws so super-drastic that even Germans long used to the rigors of Nazidom shuddered with apprehension. The first of these laws, framed by General Göring, imposes the death penalty on any German who "knowingly and unscrupulously, out of sheer selfishness or for other base motives, sends or leaves his money or other property...
...Tampa. Instead the convention delegates voted to: 1) affirm the Executive Council's suspension order; 2) direct the Executive Council to continue efforts at reconciliation; 3) empower the Executive Council to summon a special convention of the Federation if they should finally feel driven to adopt some "drastic procedure." This temporizing simply meant that the old leaders of Labor, adepts at dodging responsibility, were putting the next move up to John Lewis, shouldering off on him the blame if Labor should be split. A committee headed by the Railway Clerks' George M. Harrison set to work drafting peace...
Scholarships and other student aids exclusive of loans rose $14,000 which made it necessary to reduce some other item if the increased income over last year was available for increasing salaries. To do this a drastic cut was made in the "buildings and grounds, improvements" item...
Movers and Shakers, covering about five years of the ugly future, reveals that for Mabel Dodge the pace of pre-War U. S. life made such half-experiences impossible and drastic showdowns inevitable. Establishing a Manhattan salon at No. 23 Fifth Ave., she took the first decisive step of separating from her husband. Guests flocked to her salon, enmeshed her in their tangled affairs. Sculptor Jo Davidson brought Journalist Hutchins Hapgood, who brought Lincoln Steffens, who brought some young college graduates: John Reed, Walter Lippmann, Robert Edmond Jones, Lee Simonson. They were followed by Emma Goldman, "Big Bill" Haywood, Alexander...