Word: handed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people said the Jewish plunderings were to replenish the 55 and Gestapo coffers. His devotion to the Führer has never been doubted; but neither can it be denied that the Führer is deeply indebted to him. While Dr. Goebbels has played a spectacular but lone hand at propaganda and Field Marshal Göring Has been busy solving the economic needs of the Reich, Police Chief Himmler has been building with his 55 men and Gestapo a personal political machine. Some day in his climb to power he may skip a few rungs of the Nazi...
...last December. Fortnight ago Finance Minister H. H. Rung announced that a Belgian firm had agreed to a $100,000,000 loan and that Russia may help soon with a "huge" one. Japan, on the other hand, has not been able to wring a single yen from her busy but broke allies, Germany and Italy...
...Ickes' category was "Mr. Munchausen," identified in advance copies of the speech as Paul Mallon, although CBS induced Mr. Ickes not to call names over the air. Several of Columnist Mallon's items about Mr. Ickes, Mr. Ickes bluntly charged, were lies. On the other hand, Columnists Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen (who heave many a mean brick, but rarely at Mr. Ickes) "write a lively and on the whole interesting column of dependable news and legitimate comment...
...been getting so good at his specialty (pictures of clipper ships) that several have been sold. "The artists still think it's cheese," said he, "but dealers sell it and that's the big thing. I wouldn't be caught dead with a brush in my hand...
...quit the Rockefeller Foundation. Last week, to the surprise of scientists all over the U. S., the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research enforced retirement rules on its working scientists for the first time, suddenly announced the withdrawal of five of its most brilliant members. Although the five scientists will hand over their administrative duties to younger colleagues, they will all receive pensions, and most of them will continue their important research work in Foundation laboratories. The retirees, five of the keenest scientific brains on earth...