Word: feather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Directors and stockholders of Copenhagen's Nordic Feather Co. last week attended their annual meeting. News was good, goose down was up, feathers were flying and the quilt industry, like the armament trade, was booming. Most effusive was the general manager in his praises of handsome Adolf Hitler. Exports to Germany have risen sharply since Der Führer issued a decree granting 800 marks of government money to newlyweds. When purchasing quilts and pillows for their Aryan homes they have preferred the mountainous featherbeds of Nordic Feather...
...Times in 1918. Year before his wife, who had been the widow of Henry Morrison Flagler, died and left him $5.000,000. Last year President Roosevelt made Publisher Bingham U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and proud indeed was Kentucky to receive this finest feather of diplomatic patronage. Last week, Ambassador Bingham was feeling thoroughly at home in London and thinking he was being a credit to his state and his nation when the Kentucky Legislature petitioned President Roosevelt to recall him immediately and oust him from...
...renounce their royal rights. One prominent Habsburg was in Vienna last week. Archduke Anton, 33-year-old husband of the Princess Ileana of Rumania. Both have recently joined the Heimwehr. Both appeared at a Heimwehr mass meeting last week, the Princess wearing a little Styrian hat with the Heimwehr feather and green ribbon. Speaking rapidly in German with a British accent she said: ''The Heimwehr is our opportunity. We have real leaders now. The best thing we can do is to go along with them-for Austria and for the Fatherland, with a whole heart and with...
...Thomas was the basis of Banker Warburg's charge (TIME, Jan. 1) that LeBlanc wrote the Senator's speeches. Whatever theories Senator Thomas may have picked up from Banker LeBlanc the push behind his drive for inflation was his own. The developments of 1933 added many a feather to his political...
...used towels and his own vest to burst into flames. Police testimony had shown that the main fire was started neither in the washroom nor the restaurant but in the Reichstag assembly hall. There Marinus van der Lubbe, according to his confession, ignited the bulletin board and a feather-stuffed couch...