Word: ramrodded
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...Ramrod-straight, Major General Blanton Winship, U. S. A. retired, marched up the gangplank of the steamer Coamo in Manhattan last week, quietly retired to his cabin to settle himself for the four-day voyage to Puerto Rico. There he was to take over the job of Governor which had proved too politically hot for Robert Hayes Gore (TIME, Jan. 22). The one-time Judge Advocate General of the Army smilingly told newshawks that he had nothing to say about his new post. But a fellow-passenger, who had also just landed a big Puerto Rican job, said plenty...
...Hjalmar Schacht, ramrod-backed, high-collared Governor of the Reichsbank, rose for Germany (which went through the world's worst inflation) to snap, with obvious reference to the U. S., "Some countries have deliberately abandoned stable currency, trying to influence economic conditions by monetary experiments. However deeply we regret this, we cannot deny a sovereign state the right to do what it likes...
...Mahatma or Great Soul seemed to twist around his scrawny finger last week the United Kingdom Government, some 220,000.000 Hindus of all castes (from exalted Brahmins to debased Untouchables) and even the ramrod-stiff British...
...Bavaria must oppose the encroachments of Berlin!" barked the grizzled, ramrod-backed Prince to a throng of Bavarians who were once his father's subjects. "Bavaria must oppose all efforts to centralize the Fatherland. That is the Western and notably the French method! . . . The Empire of Bismarck was composed of allied states and therein rested its strength...
...Alexander Korda directed this talking version in England for Paramount, with U. S. money, English actors, cameramen, staff.* Leslie Howard does his usual discreet, effortless, alert job, delivering the bright lines of the dialog as though he habitually talked that way. George Grossmith as a tall, rheumatic, liverish, twinkling ramrod King, is a sly parody of Sweden's Gustaf...