Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before proceeding to such a step President von Hindenburg went through the formality of asking Monsignor Ludwig Kaas, chairman of the Catholic Centre (fifth largest party) whether he could form a Cabinet with a "safe majority." The bespectacled Monsignor's answer was of course "nein." The President ignored the Socialists (second largest) and the Communists (third largest). In his quiet study he called a fateful conference of four men whom he trusts: his son and aide Major Oskar von Hindenburg, his State Secretary Dr. Otto Meissner. his Acting Chancellor von Papen and Defense Minister-Kurt von Schleicher, the intriguing...
...them like a disease. On every animal face there was a snarl and a sneer that represented the discontent of a thousand others, and the lines and hollows that only starvation can leave distorted their features. They hardly knew where they were going, yet they dreamt that each painful step they took would bring them nearer to food, to the Baker and the Baker's wife...
...measure is little more than palliative. As far as it goes it is practical since it will provide supposedly three hundred million dollars revenue, and is also expected to prevent racketeering brewers by supervising manufacture. Although it will scarcely satisfy the repeal sentiment throughout the country, it is a step in the right direction; and its practical application will do much to guide Congress in the long process of working out a repeal measure that will not turn out to be another "experiment...
...potent old Genoa family, was elected president of Benito Mussolini's Italia Line, succeeding His Royal Highness Prince Luigi of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi, who resigned (TIME, Oct. 24) With the replacement of all but two directors and the appointment of a new general manager, this step completed the long-awaited reorganization of Il Duce's great shipping line...
...Reverend Francis L. Patton was elected president of Princeton. At that time the college was beginning to feel keenly the tug of new winds of liberal doctrine, and in the words of one who was a Freshman at the time. "It seemed a backward step to take a man with a white lawn tie, a black frock coat, side whiskers and the pallor of a medieval monk, to preside over a college devoted chiefly to the liberal arts." Patton had been a Presbyterian pastor, and a professor in the Princeton Theological School; he had a claustral and philosophic austerity that...