Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nazification received a brief check last week when the elders of the Landes-kirchen, representing 29 Protestant church groups, meeting in Berlin, stubbornly refused to accept a hand-picked Nazi candidate as First Evangelical Bishop of the Reich. Picked by the Hitlerites to unify and co-ordinate Germany's...
If the New York Stock Exchange went in for fancy guild crests, its motto, most U. S. citizens have been led to believe, would be Laissez Faire. Until 1930, when stockbroking as a whole fell into public disrepute, the Exchange was content to make sure that its members were personally...
President Hoover's soft-voiced pleas to purge the pension rolls fell on deaf ears at the Capitol. Special Congressional committees investigated only to report disagreement and deadlock. The National Economy League took the field in response to widespread sentiment against nonmilitary disability allowances. But the thumbscrew tactics of...
1. No drastic changes, pleas.
In the hey-day of its career, and somewhat overcome by the exuberance of adolescence, for the club was in its twentieth year, H. D. C. produced Michael Gold's "Fiesta," a really excellent tale of Mexican provincial life. In spite of the unusual acclaim it received in Cambridge, the...