Word: martinet
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Prussia's martinet Premier, beefy General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, would rather see Jews support racehorses than other Jews. Though famed as an ace aviator, General Goring agrees with his cavalry friends that a man on horseback should be a cut above other men. Last week he decreed that in the State of Prussia (which is nearly two-thirds of Germany) all jockeys and drivers of horses on Prussian racetracks must be Aryans. Jews may still own racehorses, enter them in Prussia's smartest meets, even win prizes-but Aryans must ride...
...this proved the exceeding wisdom of Germany's great iron & steel mongering House of Krupp, now headed by Bertha Krupp's husband, Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. In his own vast organization Dr. Krupp von Bohlen is a high-collared martinet, but in dealing with raw statesmen of the new regime he has proved an ingratiating fellow. Less than three months ago he, as president of the Federation of German Industries, beat a strategic retreat by putting it under Nazi auspices. Last week he fairly bubbled optimism as members of the Federation received official notice canceling...
...last week. Mounting opposition from moderate Reichstag Deputies (tired of his Dictatorship) had to be crushed. Ruthlessly the Chancellor cut out of his Cabinet several old friends, notably moderate Foreign Minister Dr. Julius Curtius whose portfolio Dr. Bruning took himself, then revamped his whole Cabinet on strictly dictatorial lines. Martinet General Wilhelm Groener he retained as Minister of War, gave him also the Ministry of Interior, thus concentrating in one man complete control of the Army and of all German municipal police. The new cabinet...
...startling: her legs were so obvious and so overdeveloped in comparison with her frail body. She took cod-liver oil in vain effort to fatten her trunk. As artist she was as jealous as she was confident of first place. As leader of her troupe she was a benevolent martinet. She bossed them sternly in their dance regimen, nursed them through their personal woes. Before every performance, despite her assurance of success and applause, she was nervous, tense. In public she affected simple, obscuring clothes. In the privacy of her home she liked soft, comfortable things...
During the years 1914 to 1922, some 900 boys attended The Hill School at Pottstown, Pa. There, as their headmaster, they knew an erect, square-shouldered young man with crisp, rufous hair, square chin, and wide blue eyes that combined the attentiveness of a scholar, the vigilance of a martinet, the red-veined nervousness of a stallion. Boys, now men. who remember those eyes and the wide mouth that always trembled when it was trying to be most deliberate, know that Dwight Raymond Meigs was a combination of strong forces. "The King." the boys called him, some in fear, some...