Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nothing proved the mastery of Mussolini in Italy more completely than the way in which he managed to dominate Balbo, loading him with the rank of Air Marshal in reward for his Century of Progress flight, embracing him publicly while ecstatic Romans huzzahed, and then packing him off to be Governor of Libya, puncturing the world bubble of his fame, so that today not everyone remembers Italo Balbo. This sort of abrupt shift Il Duce constantly employs as a method, calls it ""changing the guard," keeps even Fascism's greatest dignitaries ever on the qui vive, for no Cabinet Minister...
...Kelly, bundled him into a darkened automobile and drove toward the State line but did not cross it. In the preliminary scuffle Jeremiah Kelly tripped & fell trying to get away, broke a leg. Oscar Snatch was convicted on the ground that he had kidnapped his rival for "ransom or reward or otherwise." Since the victim was missing seven days, the law presumed he had been transported in interstate commerce. The jury chose to believe a State line had been crossed, recommended the death penalty because Candidate Kelly had not been released unharmed...
This rough & ready background stood Harold Fowler in good stead in 1933 when he mixed into reform politics in New York City, helped elect Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. As reward he was given the job of First Deputy Police Commissioner in charge of straightening out New York's traffic snarl, reducing accidents. With characteristic aggressiveness, Deputy Commissioner Fowler took to cruising over the city in blimps and autogiros to spot traffic jams, started safety enforcement contests between precincts, instituted numerous strict regulations for motor vehicles. Last week the worth of his work was recognized by the National Safety Council which...
...stake was $62,000 (TIME, March 1). It was the first time one owner had won both of Santa Anita's major races. In addition, just a week before the Santa Anita Handicap, Rosemont had won the San Antonio Handicap (on the Santa Anita track), for which his reward was $6,825. Owner du Pont, 42, is President of Wilmington Trust Co., one of the backers of Wilmington's new $1,500,000 Delaware Park race track which will open next June. His sister, Mariona du Pont Somerville Scott, is married to Cinemactor Randolph Scott. She watched five...
...contribution of great importance. Nor does it signify only as a means of broadening the intellectual base at Harvard; it has dynamic possibilities as far as later study and thought are concerned. Its reception will depend largely upon the first launching-the attention to detail, the attractiveness of the reward, its inherent usefulness, above all, perhaps, the preservation of some measure of informality in its organization, for it runs afoul the worst enemies of any non-compulsory undertaking the twin devils of apathy and lethargy. The Committee's report and the reaction to, it is awaited with eagerness and optimism...