Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Questioned by suave Jewish lawyers in a Munich court last week, Jew-baiting Adolf Hitler grew hot under his brown collar, egged his brown-shirted henchmen into muttered threats that they would pull the Jewish lawyers' noses...
...flight, come the pigeons with news from the front-the worst. Arigho flies off to join the troops, leaving Allen commandant in his stead. At the Staff meeting in Dublin, measures to meet the crisis are harangued. The politicians, represented in the army by Commandant Malone, want only to pull their chestnuts out of the fire; but Allen, to his own surprise, proposes Catherine's plan. Malone's men accuse him of treason. Before they can court-martial him he escapes with Brigid and Catherine, to the friendly aviation base at Rathdonnel...
...wish to fight out the 1932 campaign on economic issues. He liked the slogan "Bread, not Beer." He feared that any notice he or his party might take of Prohibition would tend to magnify "beer" over "bread" and thus divert public attention from his long strenuous efforts to pull the country out of Depression. But "General"' Brown was persistent. He lined up most of the Cabinet for a Prohibition change. He hammered home to the President the necessity of the Wet vote if the G. O. P. hoped to carry the North and East. Wearing rubber boots he waded...
Eleven of the twelve Governors of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks met extraordinarily in Washington last week to un-kink another bad knot in the credit rope with which they are trying to pull the country out of its economic ditch. From Boston New York and Philadelphia, from Richmond, Atlanta and Dallas, from Cleveland, Chicago and St. Louis, from Minneapolis and San Francisco, they answered the call for consultation from Eugene Meyer, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, overlord of the nations credit and currency. Only George Henry Hamilton Governor of the Kansas City Reserve Bank, failed to appear...
...fighting plane is "built around the needs of pilots and armament, the new passenger ship is built around an unusually spacious cabin for ten passengers and cargo. Twin supercharged Wasp engines, streamlined into the low wings, will pull the ship 155 m. p. h. cruising speed, 175 m. p. h. top speed. The new ships will cut United's coast-to-coast flying time from 27 hr. to 24. New York-Chicago will be flown...