Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inflationary and promissory plans like this have long distracted German financial experts (except Hjalmar Schacht, who controlled currency with a firm hand). Latest to crack under the strain is Reichsbank Vice President Dr. Rudolf Brinkmann, who lasted less than four weeks in office. One day just before he was sent to a sanatorium for a rest, Herr Brinkmann was feeling on top of the world. Carefully going through the personnel of the Reichsbank and picking out many of the most talented men, he called them together. He also summoned a brass band. "Play a march," he said to the band...
...empire" (Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia), Archduke Otto was still more indignant. Said "His Most Apostolic Majesty": "I condemn with the utmost energy the violence with which Germany has subjugated Bohemia and Moravia. I condemn also the military occupation of Slovakia by a German Army. . . . More than ever I have the firm conviction that we are nearing the inevitable end of the National Socialist regime...
...general purposes, Mr. William McGeorge of Kent, Ohio would serve as Mr. Average U. S. Bowler. He is 53, looks 40; has a Celtic thrust to his under jaw; is lean, lanky, straight; believes bowling is the best possible exercise. A white-collar man with an electrical firm, he has a wife and three big sons, lives in a simple house on College Street. He bowls Wednesday and Friday nights with the Portage County All Stars and in the Kent-Ravenna City League. When he bowls in important competition he wears a shiny satin bowling shirt with a regimental-striped...
...that it is a U. S. best-seller,÷ a German publishing firm prepared to bring out All This, and Heaven Too in Germany, asked Author Rachel Lyman Field for permission to put her name on the title page simply as "Lyman Field." Reason: by Nazi decree, Rachel is one of the names officially allotted to German Jewesses. Aryan Author Field refused...
...court tennis ball. Racquets players have been so few that one ball maker, a man named Jeffries Mailings, until his death 20 years ago, made all the balls required by all the world's players in his two-story home in Woolwich, England. His firm still carries...