Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to State Secretary Lammers, the present German Constitution signed at Weimar in 1919 may now be considered a negligible scrap of paper. "The Leader does not want Germany to have a documentary constitution," explained Dr. Lammers. "The State must reach deep into the life of the individual. The present laws regulating the life of the German and his personal liberty are only a beginning. The fundamental purpose of our State is the creation of a new type of human being. No constitution is needed since all responsibility rests with the Leader, Adolf Hitler...
...easily lead to another naval race, a race easily precipitated due to the popularity of such conceptions as "national security," yet almost impossible to stop short of war. The Admiral has offered this plan saying that Japan will decide at the end of the conversations whether or not to scrap the existing Washington limitation treaty...
...Thus although most of the pistons in Ford cars are of Mr. Bohn's Bohnalite some are of Aluminum Co.'s Lynite. Mr. Bohn is not vitally disturbed by Aluminum Co.'s control of the virgin metal because most of his castings can be made from scrap aluminum, which has a free market. But it is a favorite charge of such independents as Bohn that Aluminum Co.'s domination has caused some big consumers (notably General Motors) to keep their aluminum consumption at an irreducible minimum. Mr. Bohn pointed out last week that...
That meant that Poland was daring to scrap a portion of her Versailles obligations-as Germany would like to scrap all hers. Pilsudski was playing Hitler's game, providing a test case before the League. For France, for Louis Barthou, what...
...different was the cruise of the Soviet icebreaker Krassin, which steamed out of Leningrad last March, landed last week at Wrangel Island, a bleak scrap of land in the Arctic Ocean, 85 miles from the northeast coast of Siberia. There for five long years six Russian meteorologists, their families and assistants, 44 souls all told, have lived in isolation. Last year the freighter Chelyuskin, commanded by hardy, hairy Professor Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, was sent to take the colonists off their icebound island, deposit a new shift of weather observers. The ice pack closed in on the Chelyuskin in September, hugged...