Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most active defender of Loyalist Spain in the U. S., the Communist Party had a big hand in recruiting the brigade, slipping its rookies into Spain and naming the outfit (for Abraham Lincoln is now a Communist hero by adoption). But many other men of any or no political faith, who saw in Spain a battle for democracy, also backed it. And one who put up $10,000 to help repatriate Lincoln brigadiers was Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch...
Income, on the other hand, "out of which debts are serviced," increased $30,000,000,000 between 1932 and 1937. "Have you not overlooked the fact that as national income increases, tax revenues increase, even without a rise in tax rates? . . . Tax receipts of the Federal Government increased from $2,080,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933 to $6,242,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June...
...terrified the world as the ruthless, methodical, Nazi-directed events which during late summer and early autumn threatened a world war over Czechoslovakia. When without loss of blood he reduced Czechoslovakia to a German puppet state, forced a drastic revision of Europe's defensive alliances, and won a free hand for himself in Eastern Europe by getting a "hands-off" promise from powerful Britain (and later France), Adolf Hitler without doubt became 1938's Man of the Year...
...Catherine's wheel and the Nazi hierarchy looks on, was drawn by Baron Rudolph Charles von Ripper (see p. 20), a Catholic who found Germany intolerable. Meanwhile, Germany has become a nation of uniforms, goose-stepping to Hitler's tune, where boys of ten are taught to throw hand grenades, where women are regarded as breeding machines. Most cruel joke of all, however, has been played by Hitler & Co. on those German capitalists and small businessmen who once backed National Socialism as a means of saving Germany's bourgeois economic structure from radicalism. The Nazi credo that the individual belongs...
...concert did demonstrate is that the best U. S. Negro music is not all produced in Harlem and on Broadway, but that some of it comes from towns of the South and Middle West. From them the concert's manager, Swing Pundit John Hammond, had imported eleven hand-picked Negro musicians. Of these the most musically interesting were four lean, earnest-looking Negroes from Kinston, N. C., who call themselves Mitchell's Christian Singers...