Word: frozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side stalked long-necked, domineering Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Governor of the Reichsbank. To make things more exciting before he left Berlin Dr. Schacht recommended and Chancellor Hitler decreed last week a blanket and indefinite moratorium blocking payment of service charges on practically all German foreign obligations except her already frozen still-haltung credits. This move sent Germany dramatically to London hat in hand, served notice that unless she receives favors of some sort from the Conference her total borrowings are as good as lost. Eagle-eyed beside Dr. Schacht came the Delegation's vigilant Nazi watchdog, a Dr. Wilhelm...
...owned everything in Zion, which included candy bar, cookie and lace factories, bank, department store, publishing house, cement plant, bakery. Last week Mr. Voliva was an involuntary bankrupt and his Zion industries were in receivership. Liabilities were listed at $800,000, assets at $2,000,000, mostly frozen. For two years 5,000 Zion employes had received no regular pay checks, although they had drawn food & clothing from the stores. Last week Mr. Voliva's attorney reversed the boastful talk of two years ago, stated that Mr. Voliva had drawn only $1,258 a year for 17 years...
...employe of American Electric Co. (Stuart Erwin) is accused of having measles, causes the International House to be placed in quarantine. He finally manages to buy the rights to the radioscope, escape with his fiancée (Sari Maritza). Through all this rigmarole, W. C. Fields wanders with a frozen face, an unlighted cigar, an armful of bottles. He goes on a rampage among the wires of the hotel switchboard. which he scornfully describes as a "Chinese noodle-swamp." He insults the inventor, abuses Gracie Allen (who has a small role as nurse to the house doctor), drives his sedan...
...Japan's chief delegate to the London Conference, Viscount Ishii, was momentarily due, to sit on President Roosevelt's famed black leather couch and talk as friends, face to face, about what the world needed. It even looked as though President Roosevelt, having melted Europe's frozen attitudes, was prepared to cool the runaway conflagration in Asia...
...publicity was tremendous. Rivera knew that John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s wife and his son Nelson were trustees of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art which gave Rivera a show a year ago. In that show was many a frankly Communistic picture by Rivera, notably a fresco Frozen Assets, showing starving men, idle mills. In early March, one of Rockefeller Center's architects, Raymond Hood, went to Detroit where Rivera was finishing his frescoes for the Detroit Institute of Arts. He approved Rivera's big, colored sketch for Rockefeller Center...