Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Members of the Brüning Government, a "Cabinet of Nobodies," know well enough that their tenure of power is dependent on the will and prestige of HINDENBURG. Sheepishly in the Red House the Chancellor was understood to have proposed that Germany's famed "Iron Man," Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, recently Director of the Reichsbank, should be made Finance Minister...
...gesture he seized the ancient black-winged wooden escutcheon of the Brahe family, broke it in two across the coffin as a sign that no Swede will ever bear those arms again. Last to leave the crypt was Archbishop Söderblom. He locked for the last time the ancient iron doors on the last of the Brahes...
Friends of Arthur J. Brandt, American Austin president, bring to him no ripe red apples, for the odor of apples is distressing to Mr. Brandt who will leave the table if the fruit is served. From his first job ? with Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. ? he asked to be discharged, saying that he did not consider himself earning his salary. His first big responsibility came in 1923 when he took over the direction of Oakland Motor Car Co., General Motors' "sick" unit. He made it so healthy that Pontiac was later brought out under Oakland auspices. Later...
...suit. Should he win, U. S. Steel will be mightily embarrassed, for it will have to give up its control not only of the Elgin, Joliet, & Eastern, but also of the Bessemer & Lake Erie (which connects its mills with the lakes) and of its two roads in the iron mining district, the Duluth, Missabe & Northern and the Duluth & Iron Range...
Tall, sinewy, with iron-grey hair, pointed beard, high cheekbones, keen, kind eyes behind his scholar's spectacles, Philosopher Unamuno is a mystic but no wishy-washy one. Says he: "I have put passion into my books-the passion of hatred, the passion of disdain, the passion of contempt!'' He is married. "Like my Basque country, I have no history, or rather it is all purely internal. Since my birth in Bilbao on the 29th of September 1864 of a Basque family, nothing has happened to me that can interest a reader. ... As to my internal life...