Word: slates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this plan is not changed-and Nazi plans are notoriously fluid-the entire Nazi slate must thus be unanimously elected Nov. 12. But the voters will have a Ja circle and a Nein circle in which to vote for or against Chancellor Hitler's policy since he took office last March, especially the withdrawal from the Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations (TIME...
...abolished throughout Germany at one stroke last week, and the Nazi Party crushed the last fragments of opposition. In the Reichstag election on Nov. 12 only Nazi candidates will be permitted to run, according to the Government's announcement. This system of presenting the electorate with only one slate consisting entirely of Government-picked candidates, Benito Mussolini introduced into Italy five years ago (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). Inevitably the Hitler Government must win-100%. Characteristically Chancellor Hitler did not threaten last week to re-arm in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler's technique of assault, highly...
Ferdinand. Pecora-running for office as District Attorney of New York County on the slate of Joseph V. McKee-last week finished off the Dillon, Read chapter of the U. S. Senate's investigation of bankers. From the investigation of Dillon. Read's investment trusts (TIME, Oct. 16) he went on to two other topics that have become part of the standard program in investigating banking houses: Tax Evasion, James V. Forrestal. Dillon, Read & Co.'s vice president and a financial comet of the 1920's, admitted that in selling for $892,936 stock which...
...Haven never should have been, Ten thousand Babbitts must live in Stamford. When the eastern sky is saffron, and the west is a slate blue, New York yawns, Banana vendors in Second Avenue push their carts through streets littered with humanity's debris, as Park Avenue tumbles into scented beds. Tugs hoot in the harbor, trains leave, planes arrive, the subway roars and the never ending round feverishly swings toward the stupid frenzied pitch of noon...
Next day, with his hat over his eyes, a young Spanish Republican swaggered down Madrid's Broadway, the noisy Calle de Alcala. Before the 17th Century Calatravas Church, he stopped. Its soft slate façade was a mass of scrawled inscriptions and caricatures. One he had never noticed before, a silhouet of a man with a large hooked nose and protruding...