Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even this may be possible, Frenchmen readily agreed. They noted, however, that Saar folk have been shipping their francs in a mad rush to France, The Netherlands, Switzerland. Guesses of how much of the original 1,800,000,000 francs now remains in the Saar ran as low last week as 150,000,000. In the Saar meanwhile Nazis whacked together 350 booths in which Saar folk will be compelled to exchange for German marks any French francs or other foreign money they possess after March...
...Rush Holt's 30th birthday falls on June 19 and although the huge Democratic majority could, if it would, seat him, it knows only too well the national howl the Republicans would set up about the New Deal caring nought for the Constitution. Hence Majority Leader Robinson ordered Youngster Holt to bide his time. In June, if Congress is still in session, the majority will vote Holt his seat. Meantime he will cast no votes, but he, too, has a seat with his name on it, an office and clerks, and the expectation of $833 a month...
...clicked frantically throughout the Fatherland one day last week. Most urgent. Clear all lines. Berlin calling every Army officer above the rank of colonel, every Storm Troop leader, every Labor Corps leader, every Nazi Youth and Party leader. All were ordered to drop whatever they might be doing and rush to Berlin. Added the Realmleader's official circular telegram: NO EXCUSES WILL BE ACCEPTED...
...master of Germany, whereas the Army is its defender and sole bearer of arms"-implying that Storm Troopers may no longer go about with pistols in their belts. "Whatever remains of past differences between the Party and the Army," concluded "Rosie," "has now been swept away by the forceful rush of the Realmleader's speech. Constructive work must and will result from this historic hour in the Prussian State Opera House...
...months the trustees of the University of Rochester have been dangling a rich prize before the eyes of U. S. educators. In a search for a successor to President Rush Rhees they examined the qualifications of no less than 101 candidates. Last week they voted to drape the presidential mantle over the husky shoulders of Alan Chester Valentine, 33-year-old Master of Yale's Pierson College...