Word: fritz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...morgue; the sad-faced mourners at his funeral (where a photographer got slugged for being "disrespectful"); a Hollywood extortionist waiting on a street corner for money from Actress Betty Grable, getting caught by agents disguised as gardeners. There were absorbing glimpses of malefactors from George ("Machine-Gun") Kelly to Fritz Kuhn and his Nazi German-American Bund, as well as behind-the-scenes sleuthing heroes at work in the FBI's Quantico, Va. laboratories. From secret files came a sequence of rare excitement. Filmed by G-men through a transparent mirror in his office wall, it showed German...
Even when he went to the Bundestag to be sworn in for his third term as Chancellor, der Alte did not have his Cabinet list ready. The problem was pfennig-pinching Fritz Schäffer. As Minister of Finance in the old Cabinet, Schäffer had consistently resisted the plans of Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard to ease taxes to produce more investment capital; he had also refused to release budget money for rearmament...
Erhard is not the sole motor of Germany's booming enterprise. Skinflinty old Finance Minister Fritz Schäffer, fighting stubbornly for his pfennig-pinching budgets, and Central Bank Boss Wilhelm Vocke. keeping alert hands on the nation's interest rates, have helped immensely in preserving the federal republic against inflationary dangers. But Erhard created the proper climate, bulled away the obstacles. Keeping clear of technical intricacies, he preaches the wider doctrine of expanding productivity, the Soziale Marktwirtschaft that might be translated loosely as "free enterprise alive to social responsibilities." It means, he once remarked only half jokingly...
...left wing will be BobDowns, a newcomer to the squad, who has played in England, and Tom Fritz has been brought in at fullback...
...loose forwards will be veteran Ash Hallett, Dave Steinberg, and light but fast Roy Jakeman. Seniors Geoff Locke, Tom Fritz, and King Lowe are other forwards likely to play this fall, as is converted football player Woody Harris...