Word: slashings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Negroes, so every Soviet child is taught, are the Black Hopes of Communism in the U. S. Sooner or later, if properly primed by Moscow, they will "arise and slash [their] thraldom's chains" as the Soviet anthem puts it. Nowhere else in the world is a Negro so pampered as in Russia. Last week that coal-black protege of Joseph Stalin, Robert Robinson, was elected, somewhat to his surprise, to the Moscow Soviet...
...Storm Troops are proudly carrying on without uniforms and remain loyal to the Führer," hopefully declared the Chancellor's personal newsorgan. "Even in civilian clothes our splendid Storm Troopers can easily be recognized!" With time to mull over the announcement that Herr Lutze was planning to slash their numbers from about 2,500,000 to an unarmed "political army" of some 800,000, they had the small satisfaction last week of hearing that their rivals of the Stahlhelm were being taken out of their uniforms too and sent off on a vacation until August...
Cotton mills were to slash operations 25% for twelve weeks to permit textile consumption to catch up with production (see p. 15). The silk industry had already taken a one-week holiday. Chemical prices were soft. Many a producer was cramming his warehouses with new goods at top speed for fear a strike would suddenly overtake him and his plant...
...Manhattan that afternoon the Board of Estimate wasted no time in effecting much-needed savings in a city budget unbalanced to the tune of $31,000,000. The bill permitted the board to slash the city's expenditures some $13,000,000 by salary reductions, furloughs, consolidation of departments, abolition of useless jobs, of which 1,010 were abolished at once. What made the bill seem a puny thing to the Mayor was that such populous and politically potent city departments as Transit and Education had been exempted by the Legislature from pay cuts and reorganization...
...Frenchmen subscribe to those sentiments, but all were startled at the text of the 14 decrees. To slash government expenditures Premier Doumergue was preparing to retire one out of every ten government employes and to cut all Federal salaries. Politically it was playing with dynamite. In France with a population of 42,000,000 there are nearly as many non-military government employes as all the non-military Federal plus all the State employes in the U. S.* One Frenchman in 53 works for the Government. By lowering the compulsory retirement age. approximately 85,000 of these will be removed...