Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schmitz. Chosen as Federal Commissioner for Finance to try to pull German banks and industries back on their feet was Hermann Schmitz. Herr Schmitz is little known in the U. S., but his appointment seemed obvious to German editors. President Hans Luther of the Reichsbank could not take the job; he had far too many other things to do. Because of the intricate politics and jealousies of German finance, no professional banker could be appointed. Herr Schmitz is the next best thing. He is the financial adviser, the banking counsel of the largest corporation in Germany, the German Dye Trust...
...Baby. "His fis' stuck, en he can't pull loose. De tar hilt 'im. But Tar-Baby, she stay still, en Brer...
...Someone must have been kidding Authoress Celarié if she tells this as a true story, else some Marocaine, a devotee of Boccaccio, called on her knowledge of his works to pull herself out of a nasty...
...students of parachute jumping at the Army's Chanute Field, Rantoul, Ill., and Private Harold L. Osborne was being borne aloft to make his final qualifying jump. Nervously he rehearsed his instructions to "bail out," to count to ten while he hurtled downward clear of the ship, then pull the ripcord of his 'chute. At a nod from the pilot of the plane, Private Osborne clambered half out of the cockpit, glanced once at the earth 2,000 ft. below, was seized by the "jitters." He dared not let go, he dared not turn back; so he reached...
...Lakehurst, N. J., a ground crew of U. S. sailors catches the ship's dangling ropes, holds on hard. Lately the crew's mascot, a nine month old bull pup named Tige, learned to help. He would seize a rope end in his strong young teeth and pull amain...