Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lago di Garda. According to latest reports they still spend the first four days waiting to be received in sumptuous comfort, find their closets full of the most expensive and entrancing lingerie, receive every two or three hours a present carried in by a servant, such as a ring, box of chocolates, flowers, a book. Instead of an orgy, however, the big night when it finally comes now consists in listening to the Poet-Prince talk with vivid force and imagery about politics, poetry, religion and LOVE until about 7 the next morning, when his guest staggers...
Last week at New York's Polo Grounds Promoter Michael Strauss Jacobs, as a last gesture before taking over the boxing franchise of the great Madison Square Garden, staged fights for four champions instead of three-all on one night. Into the ring to grace this Carnival of Champions climbed Heavyweight Joe Louis to shake hands with his most recent opponent, Tommy Farr. But Champion Joe Louis, Mike Jacobs' star attraction, did not fight that night for the paying customers...
...second (over-the-weight) meeting two months later. Last week, with his title at stake, Champion Ross outboxed and gamely outfought Challenger Garcia until the twelfth round. Then, fatigued and bruised by Garcia's punishing gloves, he fought gamely on, contrived by a magnificent display of ring generalship to keep out of danger until the finish, brought the stands to their feet in admiration...
...Schacht was motoring "for a few days" in Italy. His principal aides at the Economics Ministry were brusquely transferred to other departments of the German Government last week. Control of Germany's closely rationed imports of raw materials was taken over by officials directly responsible to Gőring. "Any further government role by Dr. Schacht-even as Acting Minister of Economics-is out of the question!" snapped a busy Gőring aide...
...public works, party buildings and motor speedways throughout Germany must be drastically curtailed if the Reich is to keep up even its present show of Capitalist economy and stable money. The situation seemed to be last week that Herr Hitler remains no economist, and that Colonel Gőring will stop at nothing short of an actual crackup in his resolve to complete Germany's present Four-Year Plan to achieve Rearmament and Autarchy (TIME...