Word: salvos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desertion and condemnation of the Administration. Now the Federal Reserve Advisory Council intones a sombre, if hollow, denunciation of a "currency of fluctuating value," while the New England Council points to a dire future if there is no stabilization of currency. No doubt we are in for a heavy salvo of such pronouncements, which will be as frantic and foreboding as they are uncomprehending...
...Reinhold Krause, a Berlin pastor associated with the extreme wing of the Nazi movement, has called down a summary rebuke from the Reichsbishop by a very curious salvo on the Old Testament. He uncompromisingly demanded "elimination of the Old Testament as a religious book . . and rejection of all ecclesiastical leaders who do not stand 100 per cent upon the platform of National Socialism." I can only interpret this demand as a suggestion that there is a heady and dangerous impasse between the political theory of the Old Testament and that of the Hitler party. How far is our thunderer justified...
While private charity was thus exhorted, Harry L. Hopkins in the dual role of Federal Relief Administrator and head of the new Federal Surplus Relief Corp., fired the first salvo in the Government's war against human misery...
Last week not a small dealer but Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., one of the ''Big Four," slashed list prices 5% to 10%. It was the opening salvo of another major price war for the already war-ravished tire industry. The reason given was, as usual, the fact that the mail order houses had cut first in their spring & summer catalogs, out last month. Goodyear, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber and smaller Seiberling met the cut but only after cursing Firestone for upsetting the applecart once again...
...harp). At a signal from the King Emperor destroyers led the attack on an imaginary foe. "Enemy" destroyers fired dummy torpedoes against the Hood and the Renown, near enough for His Majesty to see. Finally the battleships Warspite, Malaya and Valiant opened up with real broadsides, fired salvo after salvo from their 15-in. guns at a target ten miles away, made so much noise that they were heard 120 mi. away in London...