Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthur Roeder, president of Colorado Fuel & Iron Co.: ". . . To say that cuts will not be made would be like declaring a dividend out of anticipated profits...
Chancellor Heinrich Brüning dared to do last week that which no German statesman has dared since the days of "The Iron Chancellor," Prince von Bismarck...
When Reichstag deputies would not vote the money Bismarck wanted, he got it by writing out a decree which his King (whom he made Kaiser Wilhelm I) hastened to sign. Fortnight ago the new iron chancellor, who won the "Iron Cross" during the War and was hand-picked for his mettle by old Paul von Hindenburg (TIME, April 7). dissolved the Reichstag by presidential decree when it would not vote the money he wanted. Last week came the final Bismarckian move. Herr Brüning placed his rejected Budget Bill before Old Paul in the form of a decree...
...severe modern design rears beside the peaceful slope. A post orifice and police station have been erected to the left of the Festspielhaus, whose lawns, traditionally unkempt, have been carefully trimmed. Geometric flower beds sharpen the contrast to the former natural wilderness of the scene. Across the road the iron sword of Siegfried. Nothung, no longer flaunts its misinterpretation of a Wagnerian passage, placed there in Wartime. Sword and inscription have been removed. At the Villa Wahnfried, the end of the reign of the inexorable Cosima is signalized by flowers on the window ledge, the removal of iron bars from...
...When iron-willed John Gottlieb Wendel died, he left $80,000,000 in real estate, $10 in clothing. He also left a tradition as to how the property was to be managed. He and his sisters had long agreed that theatres or saloons should never be allowed on their properties. Electric signs were equally taboo. They established a record in Puritanism when they held up a $1,000,000 lease until they obtained guarantees that certain first-aid kits in the projected building would not contain more than one pint of whiskey. The main tradition handed on by Brother John...