Word: huges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holding the Jewish community of Germany in a state of general inability to earn a living wage, Nazis obviously hope to force the international Jewish community to remit to Germany huge enough sums in "good money" to keep their Jewish relatives in the Reich from going too hungry or too cold. The dollars, pounds, francs to be secured by thus "shaking down the whole Jewish race" (as some Nazis term it) are wanted to pay for such vital imports as Germany cannot get by barter deals. The Schwarze Korps, influential Nazi newsorgan of Adolf Hitler's personal Elite Guard...
Harry Wolfe and his brother Robert ("Old Bob") bought the venerable Journal in 1902. (One story is that Bob fell in love with the Journal because it defended him when somebody tried to blackmail him.) Bob Wolfe was a huge bear of a man, forceful, shrewd, hard-drinking, hard-cussing. He served a penitentiary term for shooting a man who insulted a lady he was escorting, personally broke into every boathouse on Buckeye Lake to aid rescue work during the 1913 flood, used to spout memorized poetry by the yard. He died...
...special inducement for private capital to enter this wide new rental market is needed-in huge chunks supplied promptly by big corporations from dormant surpluses instead of in pooled driblets as suggested by President Roosevelt-it could be provided in a variety of ways: by offering tax-free securities of local housing authorities (as at Princeton), now available in 37 States; by insuring mortgages on the properties through FHA with a limited return on the equity; by offering some degree of Federal tax exemption to private capital entering the field...
...Huge inventories of refined products last month forced widespread crude oil price cuts...
...known to be in precarious financial straits, the assassination of a minor ambassadorial official in Paris recently was nothing less than providential. The fact that the killing was done by a Jew, which race Hitler has no qualms about persecuting, may do much to help Nazi-land meet its huge monetary obligations. The present Hitler imposition of a $400,000,00 "fine" on the German Jews is a recrimination seldom paralleled in peace-time history. Of war indemnity proportions, this "fine" represents a persecution of such concentrated and vicious nature as to arouse world-wide condemnation. Enforced by a reign...