Word: springing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Talk. In London, presumably to attend an international whaling conference, was Dr. Helmuth Wohlthat, Adolf Hitler's star traveling salesman. He had been to Spain in early summer, and last spring he had signed in Rumania a sensationally successful trade agreement which all but made Rumania an economic dependency of the Third Reich. Forty-four-year-old Dr. Wohlthat was a wanderlusty young man who sought his fortune in the U. S. and Mexico, married a German girl living in Philadelphia, was recalled to Germany in 1933 by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the German financial wizard who was then beginning...
...long-suffering wife (Fay Holden), moony Marian (Cecilia Parker) and bratty Andy (Mickey Rooney). The Hardys' wholesome, homey doings are designed to arouse in their millions of fans no emotion stronger than delighted recognition. Andy, more than ever the tail that wags the Hardy dog, reacts to spring by falling in love with his pretty new dramatics teacher (Helen Gilbert...
...Beautiful Sweet" will appear in the district, lay cash on the line for a nice piece of property. Then followers of Harlem's bald, black, mousy Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine will move in. For parts of Yonkers and New Rochelle, N. Y. this nightmare came true this spring and summer...
Lauch Currie probably comes nearer to having a passion for anonymity than any other New Deal adviser. First evidence of Currie's growing technical weight in Washington came in the spring of 1938, when he wrote an influential memo on the Causes of the Recession. Its prime theses, now commonplace: 1) U. S. Social Security taxes took so much out of the public pocketbook that the Government's net contribution was reduced during the crucial March-September period in 1937 to a monthly average of $60,000,000 from $335,000,000 during 1936. 2) "Compensatory" Federal spending...
Over one 15,000-foot pass after another climbed Author Kaulback as spring melted the ice barriers in the rocky gorges. What finally defeated his quest for the source of the Salween was whiskers. Colleague John Hanbury-Tracy had grown a beard. A Tibetan official who had been in India and knew that Britons shave thought he was a Russian spy, and the expedition was held up until winter made the trip impossible. Though he failed to find the source of the Salween, Explorer Kaulback was comforted by the thought that "it still remains to be found by someone...