Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apes! . . . Cockroaches!" ended in a vote of 318 to 236. The Government had won by a triumphal majority of 82! Once again, Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Bruning was virtual Dictator of Germany, able to put through his policy of drastic fiscal retrenchment under a series of decrees signed by his patron, the man who made him, Old Paul von Hindenburg-until the Reichstag meets again...
...Rome on Oct. 25, promised to be in Assisi on the day set by Princess Giovanna. For Il Duce, obedient to Royalty though he may have seemed last week, the marriage is a great personal triumph. He has now lined up Bulgaria with Albania and Hungary in the "iron ring" of pro-Italian nations he is slowly forging around Italy's No. 1 Balkan enemy, Yugoslavia...
...this seemed a little vague, however menacing, Prince von Starhemberg also said specifically that the Heimwehr had "laid its hand [himself] on the rudder" of government "to hold that rudder firmly for the Heimwehr itself with iron resolve not to release it even under a Socialist majority...
...group of curious Cuban engineers peered about in a small sheet-iron building at Matanzas Bay, Cuba, last week. They studied the arrangement of a lot of pipes and tanks, and of a board, covered with levers, buttons and gauges beside which stood Dr. Georges Claude, French academician. After three years of patient work, Dr. Claude was ready to give the first public demonstration of his method for taking Power from the sea (TIME, Sept. 22 et ante...
...brown overcrusted cushion filling and deflating in frantic recurrence. . . . His head is a black lump with bloodstreams trickling down. His skin hangs in ribbons; it is scorched and smells of burning. . . . Thus they lie, rows of them, on hay, on mattresses-ravaged entrails, burst bladders, shattered lungs, lacerated throats, iron-studded skulls-the irretrievable ones. . . . Let it not be thought that these are just isolated horrors, sensational but only occasional instances of pain and suffering, and not essentially significant. These examples represent but a shabby trickle. Taken in its entirety all was far worse. . . . What is here told...