Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Certain of his speeches amounted to exhorting German manufacturers to dump their goods abroad at less than cost, at any price they could get for the good of the Fatherland. Manufacturers too infected with "export fatigue" to obey were threatened with Government reprisals. Then Dr. Schmitt cracked under the strain and four Berlin doctors rushed...
...Great Britain, James Ramsay MacDonald, and his Housekeeper-Daughter Ishbel, on a three-month Canadian vacation. Whisked off by Premier Bennett, silver-haired, 67-year-old Scot MacDonald was soon sailing across the Bay of Fundy, driving up to a tiny cottage in Digby for the rest which eye-strain has imposed on him. As Ishbel sent out for more vases to hold the flowers which Digby's New Scotlanders brought to the door, a telephone bell tinkled with a call from Halifax...
...Nazi statesmen as Vice Chancellor von Papen and Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath. after which he would go the whole Nazi hog alone, or else these "Balance Wheels" would be retained to steady his careening Government. In Berlin for some days von Papen had been considered politically dead. The strain of living under house arrest, never knowing when his guards might turn executioners, had made the Vice Chancellor's eyes red from sleepless worry-or nervous weeping. Even a son of onetime All Highest Kaiser Wilhelm, gape-jawed, goggle-eyed Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi"), had been called...
Upon Scot MacDonald the impending wreckage of his disarmament hopes threw a strain as severe as that which he, a life-long champion of free trade, faced when his National Government decided to gird up the Empire's loins with a high tariff (TIME, May 2, 1932 et ante). That crisis was got over by a spell of "eye strain" which enabled Ramsay MacDonald to absent himself from London during most of the time that free trade was being butchered. Last week, on the day after he broke Britain's big navy news, the Prime Minister...
...these men the days of play, the days when one can follow his own fancy as long as the Committee of Vigilantes at University Hall does not object, are over. The idealism, which this brief interlude broods in most of its participants, soon will be crumbling away under the strain of supporting families and getting ahead in chosen occupations...