Word: petrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vienna the task of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg's new Government was not made any easier by his Minister of Interior, rough and imperious Major Emil Fey, long the stormy petrel of Austrian politics. Testifying at the trial of two of the 144 Nazis who seized Chancellor Dollfuss and himself in the Ballhaus fortnight ago, Major Fey changed his previous account of the dying Chancellor's last words...
...What kind of a showing do you think we could put up in a war if the army can't fly the mail across country even in peace time?" said Brigadier General William (Billy) Mitchell, one-time stormy petrel of the Army Air Force in a CRIMSON interview. The General, who was in command of the Air Force of the Second Army during the war, resigned several years ago after a violent altercation with his superiors on the subject of a unified air force...
EZRA Pound's selection, not yet published in America, of what he deems the most vital in contemporary Angle-American poetry is likely to provoke controversy, for Pound has always been a stormy petrel in the arts, and both his criticism and his poetry possess an incisiveness that has been regarded by some as bellicose. One should not be misled by the man's egotism. Although he loses no opportunity to remind his readers of his special merits, Pound has been an important force in Anglo-American literature. His innovations have been genuine improvements in the technique of poetry...
...While Columbia and Cornell have contributed the shining lights among the President's liberal advisers, Harvard has sent only her renowned John H. Williams to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The Business School, by way of the Bank of England, proffered and then received back the stormy petrel of inflation, Oliver M. W. Sprague. It remained for the Law School, where liberalism burns with a less frozen flame, to uphold the University's reputation on capitol hill and to beat its rival Law Schools hands down in point of influence on the Administration. Thanks to Professors Landis, Sayre...
...Communist generals. Should they enter into friendly relations with Fukien they would have for the first time a direct and easy access to the sea. Ominous seemed the fact that the Foreign Minister of the Fukien Government is notorious Chen Yu-jen (Eugene Chen), long the Communistically inclined stormy petrel of South China politics. As War Minister the new state has General Tsai Ting-kai, famed commander of the 19th Route Army in its deathless defense of Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Governor Li Chai-sum of Kwangsi Province was styled the "Chairman" (President) of the new Government but Chinese...