Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joke, this defiance to the Federal Government was called "miniature civil war" by Berlin papers hostile to Bavaria. Dr. Held excused his undressing of Hitlerites as "necessary to uphold States' rights...
...Inflation, No Joke. First act of Chancellor von Papen was to confer with Dr. Hans Luther, President of the Reichsbank, and issue a communique that there would be no inflation, whereupon German securities slumped...
...German Catholic prelate, attempted to explain that he had "accepted the President's call not as a party man but as a German." Sternly an official Catholic Centrist manifesto denounced "the frivolous intrigues of constitutionally irresponsible individuals." At Cologne the Party's newsorgan called the new Cabinet "a bad joke," added: "Of all the surprises which domestic politics have recently produced this is the greatest and most painful...
Thus for better or for worse Chancellor von Papen will hold supreme directive power during one of the most trying crises faced by the Reich. To dismiss his Cabinet of Monocles as a bad joke became impossible...
...total of 151 was extraordinary over the Saunton Club's "joke" course. It is built over sand dunes with eccentrically narrow fairways and little slanted postage-stamp greens. The holes are not long but are often blind. The hazards are waist-high heather, bogs, bulrushes, traps like sand quarries, shore winds...