Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SINCE Prescott first published his history, the conquest of Mexico by Hernando Cortez has ranked with the victories of Lord Clive in India as one of the most amazing and courageous of human exploits, by which vast territories, riches, and populations have been subjugated to the iron will of a single man. Cortez emerges from the past as a typical Renaissance captain, like the condottiere of Italy, only transplanted into the romantic regions of the New World. Always the hardy soldier, daring and resourceful, he never shirked from deception, cruelty, or pillage. Too often people are prone to see only...
Ever since he resigned as President of the Reichsbank, stiff-starched Dr. Hjalmar ("Iron Man") Schacht has been posturing and talking as though he were still Germany's "financial spokesman." Throughout the world last week, holders of the so-called ''Young Plan Bonds" (German Government 5½s) winced when Dr. Schacht answered in Stockholm a smart Swedish reporter's question...
...arrested the operators. Scouring the cliffs above Havana along the Almendares River intrepid Lieut. Calvo popped into a cave, pulled out one Andres Niebla Torres, one Luis Mutiz and 129 bombs each containing eight pounds of dynamite. Handy were 25 cans of powdered dynamite, several barrow-loads of iron odds & ends...
...Steelman Andrew Carnegie, who gave Charles Schwab a yearly bonus of $1,000,000.* Scoffing this, Mr. Hebard wrote: ''Your reference to the $1,000,000 bonus paid to you by Mr. Carnegie 30 years ago does not mention that the fabulous profits realized then by the iron and steel industry were due not so much to any super-management but rather to the utterly unjustified high protective tariff and the rail pool. No such profits are obtained today...
...During the War, when the Kaiser was handing out Iron Crosses, German-blooded but 100% American Mr. Schwab made flamboyant retort by handing out to Bethlehem executives who made a yearly $1,000,000 or better under the bonus system, rich diamond crosses about 1½ in. high...