Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference in the Military Affairs Committee room was to iron out differences between the bill as passed by the House and by the Senate. There was drafted the law as taxpayers will actually feel it. In the trading across the table, Utah's grey old Reed Smoot, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and leading Senate conferee outargued all five Representatives. For his side he won higher normal and surtax rates on income (TIME, June 6), tariffs on copper and lumber as well as coal and oil (TIME, May 30), excise on tires, a levy on bank checks...
...federal policing of all Germany, this typical Prussian junker (landed aristocrat) can wield much power in the coming Reichstag election. During the War as Chief Political Officer of the Eastern Army Command and afterward as Governor of Northern Lithuania in 1918 he showed both velvet tact and an iron hand...
...acquiescence of Adolf Hitler in a coalition this prediction seemed flatly unfulfillable. Observers inclined, however, to see in General von Schleicher and Baron von Gayl precisely the pair who may be able to draw Adolf Hitler into a Junkers-Army-Fascist coalition, thus giving the Fatherland a fresh and iron front, potent in dealing with other nations...
Frank Taberski, onetime world pocket billiard champion, nicknamed "Iron Man" for his coolness in match play, found his Schenectady billiard parlor on fire, fainted...
WHEN the heavy clang of iron gates puts an end to the orgiastic exploitation by the press of a macabre criminal career and conviction, a vindicated public forgets abruptly the object of its morbid attention, and, satisfied, turns avidly to others. Before incarceration the audacious criminal is a romantic figure, afterwards he is a convict, a marked man,--one to be despised, and feared, and rejected. Behind the impenetrable branding gray of prison walls dwells a race apart, whose unnatural existence is seldom probed, in whom society's only interest is the enforcement of its due. But in the last...