Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel strongly on this subject because we have been working for years to iron out seasonal peaks and valleys and insure steady employment at good wages. As proof-our factory wage workers were paid an average of $1,581 per year during...
...German, Codreanu first acquired political importance by shooting dead Prefect Manciu of Jassy, Rumania's university town, who had arrested students for anti-Semitic outrages. Results for him: a trial, acquittal, increased popularity, formation of the secret terrorist society "The League of the Archangel Michael," forerunner of the Iron Guard and the All-for-the-Fatherland Party...
...trial No. 2 for Codreanu followed the 1933 murder of Premier Ion Duca. Arrested as an accomplice, Codreanu denied any part in the assassination, but later, having been acquitted, bragged publicly that Iron Guard members had drawn lots to choose the assassin. Meanwhile, scores of students, policemen, professors, politicians became victims of Iron Guard terrorism. Last year one of his lieutenants, Jon Stelescu, left him, founded his own party, the Rumanian Crusaders. Shortly afterward, Apostate Stelescu was stabbed and shot to death. In a "heads-shall-roll" list discovered by Rumanian police, Stelescu's party had placed...
...hrer. But his outspoken criticism of Mme Lupescu, alienated him from royal favor. Last April, when the great plot to dethrone Carol was revealed, 1,500 of his followers were arrested and M. Codreanu, with the little bag of Rumania's "sacred soil" that all Iron Guardsmen wore under their green shirts, went finally to jail...
...international event, played this week at famed St. Andrews on the Scottish coast. All golf enthusiasts are well aware that the nearest Great Britain has ever come to putting a dent in the Walker Cup was in 1932 at Brookline, when Briton Leonard Crawley hooked an iron shot to the spot where the big silver trophy was on display, knocked it off its pedestal. This year, however, Britons were talking about the "ascendancy of British amateur golf," were hoping for their first victory in ten tries...