Word: snooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minister-President Hermann Wilhelm Goring cocked his large snook last month in Berlin to roar: "Our colonies have been stolen from us! ... Britain has one-third of the world as her colonies. . . . Also our gold has been stolen from...
Minister for Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels next cocked his small snook to call the critical rejoinders of some British editors to General Goring "impudent and insulting." Following these leads from Goring and Goebbels, the Nazi Press almost unanimously cocked snooks at Britain last week, a surprising example being that set by the usually polite financial organ Berliner Börsen-Zeitung, which suddenly declared: "The British embezzled what Germany paid in Reparations...
...Final snook of the German week to be cocked was that of Finance Minister Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk. Replying to a speech in which British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden recently said that Germany in the period of Reparations borrowed 18 billion marks and paid less than eight billion, the Count by implication called Mr. Eden a liar. "The losses Germany suffered through tribute," roared Count Schwerin von Krosigk, "far exceeded the capital lent...
More than a snook was cocked at the British Navy last week when the German Navy officially admitted for the first time that it is secretly building a warship of the largest size, the Ersatz Hannover of 35,000 tons. This will be the Fatherland's first fullsize capital ship since the Great War. Two days after the Ersatz Hannover was officially announced, Berlin's semi-official military weekly sprang the further revelation that yet another 35,000-tonner will be rushed to completion to help cock the German national snook...
...this year what Prohibition took away it has partly given back. Three weeks before beer became legal Owens-Illinois' orders already amounted to 55,000,000 bottles. Last week Owens-Illinois had its 20 plants working at full capacity. What is more. Mr. Levis could cock a snook at technocrats: although with present machinery the output per man per day in his factories is at least 50% greater than it was 13 years ago there were last week more men on Owens-Illinois' payroll than at any time during the booming 1920's. Not content with what...