Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week in the smoky Ruhr metropolis of Dusseldorf, inoffensive Roland Velz, a U. S. citizen and superintendent of a group of Germany's Woolworth stores, went walking, pinless, with his wife. Cheering Dusseldorfers stood massed along the curbstone six deep as a Storm Battalion marched past, grim-faced with blaring horns and throbbing drums. Mr. & Mrs. Velz, as they edged down the sidewalk behind the packed standees failed to salute the Storm Troop's swastika flag. Smack!-a uniformed Nazi edging the other way down the sidewalk bashed Mr. Velz on the mouth. Smack!-he bashed...
...Your account of the Premier of Japan's dinner party in your issue of July 31, is absurdly incorrect. The account gives a lurid picture of nervous excitement here in Tokyo which we who live here do not recognize. "After grim days of extreme alarm . . . tension relaxed sufficiently for Premier Saito to give a party." But the "grim alarm" and the "tension" were not enough to keep the Premier and Viscountess Saito from coming unconcernedly to my humble home the week before to drink coffee and eat doughnuts with a crowd of guests. The dinner party you describe...
...game of hide and seek which President Roosevelt is playing with the advocates of sound money and inflation is a grim one. The only inescapable fact in the situation is that the government can relieve material suffering, and at the same time stimulate Industrial activity by issuing flat money or "flat" deposits on a large scale, or by forgetting to balance the budget...
Since that grim March day in 1932 when a certain Swede lay down on his bed at No. 5 Avenue Victor-Emmanuel III, Paris and put a bullet through his heart, there has been little but grim news for holders of Kreuger & Toll securities. Last week some of them had a new shock: Manhattan's Marine Midland Trust Co., successor trustee of Kreuger & Toll secured debenture 55, announced that on Sept. 1 it would distribute $25 to each holder of a $1,000 debenture...
...they arrested a total of 49 young men who had come provided to pray for "Greater Japan" equipped with everything from ancient Samurai headgear and swords to daggers, cans of kerosene and banners appealing to the public in such moving terms that police kept the texts rigidly secret. After grim days of extreme alarm, with police guarding banks, major business offices, electric power stations and waterworks, tension relaxed sufficiently for Premier Saito to give a party. Out of their limousine stepped U. S. Ambassador & Mrs. Joseph Clark Grew, he a trifle lame and slightly deaf. Just as they reached...