Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete dictatorial powers until April 1, 1937, or until the present Reichstag should be replaced by another. Afterwards the Government & Deputies expected to hurry from Potsdam to Berlin for a performance of "Chancellor Hitler's favorite opera," Wagner's Die Meistersinger. Meanwhile, by the Government's express decree, Germans were ordered to light "Liberty Bonfires" and stage torchlight parades throughout the land. About 10 p. m. Nazi Storm Troops and Steel Helmets (War Veterans) were to march in a mighty, triumphal torchlight procession down Unter den Linden while Orator Hitler harangued the nation over a compulsory radio...
...great respecter of Reds is Sir Esmond Ovey, British Ambassador to Moscow. In the Soviet citadel his Embassy flaunts life-size oil paintings of King George & Queen Mary in their coronation robes. In Moscow the Ambassador's young men never hesitate to express on Communism, its leaders and practices, opinions which would cause instant arrest for any but a foreign diplomat. Britons are not popular in Moscow...
...having whipped together a quick fortune out of Moon, Auburn and Cord automobiles, Errett Lobban Cord set out to head the "largest air passenger and express unit, in the world."* He laid siege to Avco which, as a stockholder, he thought was being mismanaged. He felt it was worrying too much about its bulging portfolio of stocks, too little about its basic business of flying planes. He thought there was too much Wall Street atmosphere about the company, too little airport smell...
Married. Maud, daughter of Louis Warren Hill, granddaughter of the late great Railroader James Jerome ("Jim") Hill; and Laurence Holmes Dorcy, literary grandson of Jim Hill's good friend, Pony Express Boss Ben Holladay; in Del Monte, Calif...
...understood that the city of Cambridge, by ordinance, forbids the sale of intoxicating liquors. According to present laws, there must be a special balloting to determine whether the local prohibition shall continue. In consideration of this possibility, the CRIMSON ballot will allow students to express an opinion as to whether the University should allow men to take beer into the dining and common rooms and to consume it there...