Word: fingerer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another group that felt the pressure of the Government finger last week was the German-American Bund, whose leader, Fritz Kuhn, faces trial on charges he stole $14,000 of the Bund's money. Kuhn took a leaf from the Hitler notebook, announced his successor to his cheering colleagues: long-jawed G. Wilhelm Kunze, now Vice Leader...
...made himself ridiculous by cutting his own salary, then restoring the cut; by decreeing French to be Quebec's official language, then rescinding the decree. Because he used Hitler's theories of racism, Mussolini's system of corporatist trade-union laws, and Huey Long's finger-wagging, roughshod political tactics, he was called a Fascist...
Last week no less forceful a finger than Arturo Toscanini's reminded U. S. concertgoers of Composer Strong. Over his weekly NBC broadcast Toscanini played a strong composition called Die Nacht ("Night"). Listeners were not surprised by its musty romanticism, its able orchestration, which recalled the period of Wagner, Brahms and Schumann. But they were surprised to hear that musty U. S. Romantic Strong was still alive...
...command, 'Halt! Prepare for cavalry! Form square!' each man dismounts. . . . The rifles are lifted out of their clips. . . . The machines are placed upside down. . . . Lastly, each man, as he lies or kneels down behind his machine, sets his wheels spinning round with a touch of his finger. Such a fence, apart from the chevaux de frise of bayonets behind it, forms an obstacle which few horses, if any, would face; and the men inside, in perfect security, can pick off the advancing horsemen with deadly effect...
...Adventure of the Mother Goose Murders, that week's twist in the Adventures of Ellery Queen, a four-month-old radio hour in which armchair experts assemble evidence from a dramatization of a mystery, spend the last twenty minutes of the show trying to put the finger on the murderer. What happened when the WBBM hose burst was a better clew to the interest of radio fans than any radio survey...