Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hammer Blows!" Smoldering behind national discontent with the von Papen-von Hindenburg decrees was of course the issue of states' rights which flamed up when Premier Dr. Heinrich Held of Bavaria defied President von Hindenburg's decree authorizing Adolf Hitler's 400,000 "Storm Troops" to put on their brown uniforms again and make public appearance (TIME, June 20). Last week Herr Hitler stormed into the presence of Baron von Gayl, demanded that Dr. Held be restrained from interfering with Fascists in Bavaria. Experts on the German Constitution meanwhile opined that no German state has the right to override President...
...Cabinet of Monocles," hitherto tolerated as better than the BrÜning Cabinet (TIME, June 13). "This Government," exploded Der Angriff, Berlin organ of Herr Hitler, "has nothing to do with the Fascist Party! It has out-BrÜninged BrÜning in issuing oppressive decrees. These last are hammer blows on the backs of a starving people...
...Agency, Mo. Jim Gidden, 88, pained by the second toe on his right foot, put his foot on a board, drove nails between the toes to hold them apart, poised a putty knife in the first joint of the pained toe, hit the knife with a hammer. After treatment by a doctor, Jim Gidden put the right second toe in a jar of salt water...
...Edwardian England 25 years ago a famed sculptor swung a hammer into a stone face of the Duke of Clarence and exiled himself for 18 years in Bruges, the Dead City of Belgium. Last week the same man, old and long forgotten, bowed low over King George's hand, stood before Queen Mary in silence, then flung out his thin arms in a Baroque gesture of gratitude...
Julius Gregory took time off from designing country homes to hammer out a pair of silver sugar tongs...