Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holding a vast fountain pen in his flabby old fist, President von Hindenburg, as a last duty before leaving for his summer home in East Prussia, had just signed eight commandments or precepts, a military code which Reichswehr Minister Werner von Blomberg promptly ordered every German soldier to memorize. The new commandments supersede the military code of May 9, 1930. There are notable changes. The soldiers' code now has no reference either to the constitution or the German Republic. Omitted is the formal prohibition against soldiers' playing an active part in politics. The old democratic right of German...
...from travel and the President from work to make a cinema which will be shown, on large screens, at next week's reopening of Chicago's Century of Progress. When the First Lady (on the screen) makes an imperative gesture, spotlights will be turned on a great fountain. When the President finishes speaking all the lights of the Fair will blaze...
...hand bellows, gas and water motors, wood and metal pipes, stops to ape the tone quality of almost every known instrument. Wheezy and unreliable were the small irreverently named "God boxes" once pumped by Senator James Couzens, President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange, Frank D. Waterman (fountain pens) and Will H. Hays, now members of Funnyman Chester Werntz ("Chet") Shafer's Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers. Electricity wrought the change whereby fan-blowers automatically deliver the wind pressure and stop levers are wired to a complicated switchboard exchange...
...seven hours from the run between Naples and Milan. Because work on the tunnel was first started 20 years ago, it was inaugurated not by Benito Mussolini but by little King Vittorio Emmanuele III, who stopped in his private car at the tunnel's mouth to dedicate a fountain to the memory of 98 workmen who lost their lives while the tunnel was building...
...went down to his rocking chair in the square; every night he went home to bed. After three days his attending physician reported his pulse and temperature normal but forbade him to speak to the Press. He was presented with two bottles of blessed water from the fountain of Santa Rosa de Lima and a flag which had been borne in the unsuccessful Lares Rebellion...