Word: method
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word. In fact, Marshal Pilsudski's belligerent tactics, far from being resented, were so greatly admired by the belligerent Führer that even today few Hitler speeches on general Nazi policy in Eastern Europe omit a friendly reference to the late Polish dictator. Often has the Pilsudski method been suggested as Lesson 1-A for other powers dealing with Nazi Germany...
...Adolf Hitler's two-weeks-old promise to observe a temporary truce in his anti-Semitic campaign while the $300,000,000 corporation to finance Jewish emigration was being set up. Last week Dictator Hitler bluntly broke his promise, permitted Berlin police to experiment with a new method for running Jews out of Germany and grabbing their property...
...Berlin method: to require each day the names of 100 Berlin Jews who will leave Germany within the next fortnight. When the 100 have paid their taxes, their share in the $400,000,000 vom Rath fine, the capital flight tax, contributed to the fund for the support of aged Jews and sold their jewelry to the State at the State's own price, they will be given passports marked with a large "J" (for Jew), told to get their visas. For those who don't get out on time, "dire penalties" will be provided...
...dramatizing of democracy that a really new attack on the subject is planned, for by combining the formal symposium and the method of dramatic presentation now used, the committee hopes to evolve a new technique, correlating the appeal of the dramatic presentation with the open discussion of the symposium...
...broaden selection from the ranks of university graduates is the change in service examinations from highly specific quizzes to general tests. Thus the government will follow the brilliant example of the English system in requiring of candidates some evidence of broad intellectual attainment instead of technical knowledge. While this method of examination may be an effective bar against the entrance of mediocrities in the service, its use in England proves that it can be undemocratic in excluding the less educated classes. However, the easier accessibility to a college education in this country than in England should help preclude such...