Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voting began Germany's welterweight Chancellor dashed up to her heavyweight Speaker, held out toward him von Hindenburg's decree dissolving the Reichstag. Brushing this aside, 210-lb. Hermann Goring shouted: "Can't you see that a vote is taking place?"; drew thunderous cheers...
Baffled, though only for an instant by mighty Goring, Chancellor von Papen flung the decree of dissolution at the Speaker's desk, stalked from the Reichstag, drew catcalls. Voting continued. Tellers kept on counting, as though the Reichstag were undissolved. Presently they announced: 513 votes of no confidence, 32 of confidence, five abstentions...
...pleased if every staff member produced a best seller. A day or two later Pearson was summoned to the War Department. He found Secretary Hurley, white-faced, "in a towering rage," pacing up and down his office. Said the Secretary: "This is a terrible thing you have done, Drew. You are trying to ruin my career. . . . Damnable lies. . . . You wrote that I posture before a mirror. Look around my office. There isn't a mirror in it.* You wrote that I used airplanes at Government expense to make political speeches and that I had smashed up a $70,000 plane...
...driven from power together with Socialist Minister of Interior Dr. Karl Severing. Cartooning them as Adam & Eve, Kladderadatsch ("Slapbang"), famed German comic weekly, pictured Chancellor Franz von Papen (who did the ousting by presidential decree) as a Biblical angel with a flaming sword. Last week Angel von Papen drew his sword again in earnest, swished it ominously, announced that his "Cabinet of Monocles" will carve up and partition the Free State of Prussia-which is approximately two-thirds of all Germany...
Last June the New York Stock Exchange, realizing that few investors in packaged securities were aware of the penalty they were paying in commissions, drew up rules to control the type of package which Exchange members might sell. Approved packages must be worth at least $500, have no units of less than five shares, must not cost more than 10% above the market value of the securities. Pirnie, Simons & Co. promptly sued the Stock Exchange, sought an injunction against enforcing such rules. Last week the court granted the injunction. The damage suit is pending. The Stock Exchange will probably appeal...