Word: penned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carry on with arbitrary violence. Thirty laws were decreed at a single Cabinet sitting between 11 a. m. and midnight. Mainly these were aimed at "hostile and disloyal" Germans, particularly those who have fled the country, mostly Jews, Communists and Socialists. By a stroke of the Chancellor's pen the Cabinet seized power to deprive all such persons of German citizenship and confiscate their property. "What we shall take from the Jews," grinned an indiscreet Treasury official, "will be a big help in balancing the budget." Even before the Cabinet decrees passed, uniformed Prussian police pounced last week...
...gave up his job with the Parker Fountain Pen Co. in Janesville, Wis. to go to Washington as a clerk in the Treasury Department. In his spare time he learned shorthand, Spanish, the law. In 1916 he emerged from bureaucratic anonymity as assistant secretary of the Fine Arts Commission. A year later he took on a position as first secretary of the Public Building Commission...
President Roosevelt last week gave up his Sunday evening to U. S. industry. Pen in hand he approved the cotton textile code, first of its kind under the National Industrial Recovery Act. Because a code cannot take effect until the second Monday after the President's approval, by signing Sunday night Mr. Roosevelt saved a week. The cotton code now goes into effect July 17. The interval is set aside to give the 23% of the industry which did not subscribe to the code time to agree to its provisions, or be forced in by the Government...
...chance to enter the publishing House of Curtis and climb quickly to the top. Instead he went to University of Virginia to try a year of law. Its fascination astonished even himself. By the time he finished his course Curtis Bok knew once and for all that the pen attracted him far less than penology, the penitentiary, sociology. Returning to Philadelphia to practice his new profession he threw himself into works of public welfare, became a trustee of Eastern Penitentiary. He even arranged to serve a voluntary term in a cell to get a real taste of prison life...
From Texas last week went news of another milestone passed by the dying Old West. No more will roundups end with the branding fire, the pen filled with frenzied bawling and the smell of burning hair and flesh. By a process introduced by Amarillo's Dr. O. M. Franklin the branding iron is dipped in a chemical, the calf stamped as though it were a cold-storage egg. In a few days the chemical painlessly eats away hair, turns red flesh to white, leaves a clean-cut Bar X or Lazy...