Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, narcotics agents raided the headquarters of a New York-Cleveland-Detroit-Chicago dope ring, seized $20,000 worth of heroin, arrested...
Storm Troops to Oberammergau. Sure enough, enthusiasm did prevail as soon as German presses printed the great news of how Germany's whole Cabinet, including staid, stuffy Foreign Minister Baron Konstantin von Neurath and 275-lb. Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring, "bounded from their chairs" last week and gave a triple cheer of "Heil! Heil! Heil!" when Adolf Hitler finished telling them in his harshest, most gutturally thrilling German that the page of the Treaty of Versailles on which German signatures are inked is just another scrap of paper. Specifically Messiah Hitler decreed that Germany will...
...aircraft wheeling over Berlin fortnight ago were mere circumstantial evidence that Aviation Minister Hermann Wilhelm Goring had broken the Treaty of Versailles which denies all military aircraft to Germany. Last week, five days before Realmleader Hitler made the treaty a scrap of paper (see p. 20), General Göring gave direct evidence. He announced that Germany has long had a military air force, merged it formally with the Reichswehr, announced himself as "General of the Flyers...
...dull morning last fortnight brokers on the New York Cotton Exchange were getting ready to take off their linen office coats and go out to lunch. Suddenly for no apparent reason one trader sprang forward to the ring, announced he would sell cotton for 11.80? per lb. - 20 points below the price at which that staple has been virtually pegged by the Government for seven months. A violent wave of selling broke over the market, uncovering nests of stop orders. The price fell 10 to 20 points on each transaction. May contracts sank to 10.25?. Brokers snouted themselves hoarse...
...much grist to his mill. His position, which the events of the past year, such as the murderous party purge at Munich and elsewhere, indicated as extremely precarious, is again made secure--for the present. Meanwhile a conciliatory attitude by England should be a potent factor in dispelling the "ring of steel" attitude of mind from the German people which Chancellor Hitler has been at such pains to foster. The war spirit in Germany is entirely too artificial not to respond to intelligent treatment...