Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the last few days growing protest against the persecution of Jews by the Nazi regime has reverberated in all quarters of the world. Demonstrations have hissed own Hitler's name and condemned his policies. Diplomatic relations with Germany have been subject to considerable strain. In the light of this widespread revlusion of feeling, the action of the Nazis seems quite incomprehensible. There appear to be no very good reasons why they should deliberately antagonize so many people...
Great was their perturbation, long the ashes protruding from their cigars. How long could the New York banks stand the strain? One answer to that question was suggested when the bankers summoned to their presence a short, stocky athletic man of 64, Daniel Ellis Woodhull, president of American Bank Note Co. The bankers asked him to print $250,000,000 worth of scrip for the New York Clearing House to use in case they needed...
...moneychangers have fled from the temples, leaving official notices plastered to the front gates. Mounting uneasiness among individual and corporate depositors led to runs upon and closures of middlewestern banks, and to such a strain upon other parts of the banking system, especially in the-East, that similar protective measures became universally necessary. The superficiality of this explanation makes it peculiarly suitable for promulgation by bankers and a subsidized press. But to go just one step beyond this "lack of confidence" is to discover the utter incompetence and frequent dishonesty which have graced the laissez-faire operation of the American...
...cheap Mexican labor. He will be pleased to read of the unofficial, but efficient deportation of 200,000 peons from Los Angeles in the last year in the Mercury's "The State of the Union" department. Los Angeles and its environs are exhaustively treated in a semi-Menckenite strain, somewhat more hard-boiled than usual, in another article entitled "Paradise...
...land between. Equally high praise can scarcely be given to the acting. While there are some moments of inspiration, there are many moments of poverty of expression and banality of action. Nor in the prompter's raucous whisper in the midst of a scene of tense emotional strain conducive to the highest enjoyment. However, the sterling work of Clara West Butler as Nurse Wayland, and of Mary McDonald as the old-bodied, young-souled mother of the cripple, inclines one to wink at a multitude of venial sins in the remainder of the cast...