Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actually believed that Herr Goebbels meant what he said was Editor Welk of Die Grime Post, an agricultural weekly that once had a circulation of a million. Editor Welk returned from the meeting to tap out a mild little editorial headed "Mr. Minister, A Word Please" which suggested that perhaps Minister of Propaganda Goebbels might have lost touch with the public, shut in as he was by thousands of antechambers. The presses had hardly stopped printing the editorial before Editor Welk found himself in a concentration camp and his paper suppressed for three months. Only the mocking laughter...
...Zveno Club came into being in 1928 soon after Lieut.-Colonel Kimon Gueorguieff resigned in protest as Minister of Railways in a politicians' Cabinet. Mild, bespectacled Colonel Gueorguieff and his Zveno friends did not like politicians. Loyal to popular, brave King Boris, they told him some time ago that they wanted to take the Government away from Premier Nicholas Mushanoff. Trying to be neutral toward the politics of his country, Boris tush-tushed them...
...Minister Jeftitch was insistent. Jugoslavia would join no pact unless the Bulgarian Government could prove its capacity to handle the noisy Macedonian minority that has made life hideous and uncertain in Sofia for many a year. On his honor, Premier Nicholas Mushanoff swore that Bulgarian Macedonians have been as mild as lambs since last June, though up to that time Bulgarian papers reported a Macedonian murder nearly every day. Last major operation was in December 1932, when a party of Macedonians, complete with rifles, pistols, bombs and bird dogs, went fowling for editors in front of the royal palace...
...Sing Sing, when a convict begged for news of his sick baby, prison authorities teletyped a query to Newark police headquarters. A motorcycle policeman sped to the convict's home. Back clicked his report to Sing Sing: "Baby recovering from mild case of measles. In no danger...
...known today as Sir Basil Zaharoff. He was on intimate of Lloyd George during the war; a few relatively mild revelations of the degree to which he influenced Great Britain's armament, military, and foreign policies during and after the war were enough, in 1922, to send Lloyd George, who did more than any other man to win the way out of office forever. This strange character, the greatest armament salesman the world has ever known, struck a major spark in the world when he collided with an American of somewhat similar interests. Zaharoff at that time was a salesman...