Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that does not complete the picture. The Comite des Forge and Schneider-Creusot were not at all unwilling to see Hitler gain ascendancy in Germany. Here the documentary proof is lacking, but the Inferential proof is close to inescapable. In 1933 Hitler sued a German journalist for having made the statement that Skoda (and, through Skoda, Schneider-Creusot) had contributed to his campaign expenses. When, however, he was challenged to make a direct denial that this was so, he stormed from the witness stand, cursed the opposing lawyer for a Jew, never specifically answered the question, and was subsequently fined...
...willing to east aside all your realistic prejudices and keep you tongue in your cheek during the movie version of the comic strip. "Harold Teen," you may be amused, Often the worldly and sage Harvard man can gain a kind of indirect pleasure by disinterestedly smiling, with his easy attitude of superiority, at such a Hollywood travesty as "Harold Teen." Hal LeRoy plays the vacuous Harold Teen with an inanity at is marvelous to behold, He also manages to fit some of his dancing in at the end of the picture. Rochelle Hudson, too, seems to realize that...
...little leaflets and pamphlets, are the stock in trade of the American Tract Society, an interdenominational, evangelical body founded 109 years ago. Meeting last week in Manhattan, the Society announced that during the year past it distributed 5,889,103 pieces of Christian literature in 25 languages, a gain of 369,277 items over the year before. Since its foundation the Society has distributed 855,000,000 tracts in 181 languages. Its missionaries have visited 2,500,000 homes, conducted 650,000 religious meetings throughout the world. The Society works not in competition with ministers but among the unchurched...
...reversal in the major upward swing which started not with New Deal but on July 8, 1932. Yet the steel industry last week was operating at 60% of capacity-highest level since September 1930. April cigaret-production set an all-time record. American Telephone & Telegraph reported a net gain of 156,000 telephones in use for the first four months of the year against a net loss of 340,000 in the same period of last year. International Harvester reported its business for the five months through April amounted to $38,400,000 against $14,300,000 in a like...
...theory of eliminating both extremes of society, the insecure proletariat and the plutocrat seeking to gain more power through the use of his idle wealth is not socialism or communism any other ism, Lippmann declared. On the contrary it is a project to "make the people independent of the state...