Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under iron fiscal decrees, sanctioned by President von Hindenburg, a German citizen receiving income from abroad today must exchange all his foreign money into marks. Author Remarque, who founded and heads a writers' colony at Monte Verita, Switzerland, kept mum there last week when told of the seizure of his 20,000 mark ($4,760) Berlin account...
...given the men a wide range of activities from which to choose. The perspective volunteer may select his job from a varied list of settlement house activities. He may serve as the advisor to a boys' debating club, an instructor in some kind of craft work such as wrought iron making, carpentry, or he may become a basketball coach, librarian, boxing or wrestling instructor, a teacher of English, arithmetic, or a leader of adults who are studying for their naturalization papers. If none of these more specialized fields appeal to him he may organize a group of eight...
...iron party discipline has limited all Communists?including the Dictator?to a salary of $1,800 per year. In proposing to jack this up to $5,400 Mr. Stalin naturally had to act with caution. The change was only being "considered," ran the public announcement last week, but such public "consideration" is the Dictator's mode of feeling his way, is usually followed by action...
Byers' prominence made his death a great scandal. He was chairman of A. M. Byers Co., Pittsburgh makers of wrought iron pipe, was connected with coke, docks and banking. He was a fine, widely known sportsman. In 1906 he won the national amateur golf championship. For years he kept a box at Forbes (baseball) Field, Pittsburgh. In England and the U.S. he had racing stables. He won trophies at trap shooting. He maintained homes at Pittsburgh, Southampton, L.I., and Aiken, S.C., often visited Palm Beach...
...Starcevo vestiges of several prehistoric periods were observed, ranging from the early New Stone Age through the Bronze and Iron Ages. Foundations of hut dwellings, skeletal and cremated graves, as well as quantities of ceramics, bone and stone artefacts, and a few metal objects, comprised the major finds. The Neolithic layer of the site proved to be the most important. Its yield of fine painted pottery was particularly surprising to the excavators...