Word: loyall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...madness. For one thing, Hitler means to consolidate his forces around him, and the easiest way to do this is to build up a solid bureaucracy. In order to be this it was necessary to remove all the Jews now holding office, and to fill the vacant places with loyal supporters. Secondly, Hitler was forced at the outset, to give vent to the personal prejudices of his colleagues and the Nazi rank-and-file. Again, the new German dictator is a sufficiently astute politician to recognize that to hold power he must have constantly before the people a live issue...
...original proclamation was based on the wartime Trading-With-the-Enemy Act. Grave doubt existed as to the legality of his orders because U. S. courts have implied that that Act, while not specifically repealed, expired in 1921 with the passage of the Knox peace resolution. Even loyal Senator Glass exclaimed in the Senate debate: "Some of us are disposed to think these proclamations have been invalid and unconstitutional...
...choosing an important appointee, a President must measure the candidate's loyalty against his capability. A man both loyal and capable was at hand for Ambassador to France. Jesse Isidor Straus began working for President Roosevelt two years ago when he reported that a canvass of 1928 Democratic convention delegates was favorable to the Roosevelt cause. As president of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. (cash dry goods), which he has headed since his father Isidor went down with the Titanic, he was one of the first businessmen to board the Roosevelt bandwagon...
...every Belgian Socialist who hissed Queen Elisabeth in Antwerp last week, and for every Flemish Frontist who threw leaflets at Her Majesty, throngs of loyal subjects cheered lustily, sang the Royal Anthem. Police arrested four Socialists for hissing, five Flemings for leafleting. Born a German, the able Queen is considered pro-French by rabid sectionalists who want "Flanders for the Flemings!" Whether she really enjoyed it or not, Queen Elisabeth sat through a long Flemish opera, alert, gracious, regal...
...been majority floor leader in the 72nd House (TIME, Dec. 19). Tennessee's Joseph Wellington Byrns, 63, lank, hollow-eyed chairman of the Appropriations Committee, was put forward as a border compromise between North and South. Alabama's John McDuffie, 49, popular party "whip" and loyal Garner friend, was the conservative South's man to perpetuate the outgoing Speaker's regime...