Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Characteristically Chancellor Hitler did not threaten last week to re-arm in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler's technique of assault, highly developed during his struggle for power in Germany, consists in alternate hammer blows and conciliatory gestures. This method kept his German political foes in turmoil, helped to paralyze their resistance until the Nazis were able at last to smash, dissolve and confiscate the property and funds of all rival German parties. Last week, trying out his technique on France, Chancellor Hitler let it be known that the "real purpose" of his speech was to offer...
...blessing. By dint of the efforts of a sentimental gambler, a role which, to speak euphemistically, is interpreted by Warren William, the old apple seller is ensconsced in an apartment, and given quite an air of savoir faire and other little spices. The lunacy winds up in a general turmoil, in the midst of which the Governor, the Mayor, and other figures come to old Annie's reception, and fill the heart of the Count with that delicate sentiment of satiated snobbishness which is needed before he give the consent. The young couple, presumably, are married; the Count goes back...
...piece of legislation largely to exclude Cuban sugar from the American market, thus in a rather short space of time ruining the island's main industry, provoking the violent unrest born of poverty which eventually broke over Machado's bespectacled head and threatens to keep the situation in constant turmoil until the cause is removed. If you are a liberal, the cause is simply the stupid tariff. If you happen to be a Marxist, the cause is the economic conflict between rival sugar interests which produced the tariff and which will keep it there; which cast off the Phillipines because...
...fighting major changes of the criminal code. Where the criminal lawyer is thinking of his bread & butter, his more respectable and conservative colleague is think- ing of the Constitution. Last week the American Bar Association's 56th annual convention at Grand Rapids was thrown into a professional turmoil by a U. S. Assistant Attorney General who bluntly proposed that constitutional guarantees be suspended, all local police be federalized and all technicalities be dropped in a national war against criminals...
...shots their bloodlust cooled. At 3 p. m. the four policemen, who still had not shot themselves, were driven off in a patrol wagon to Cabana Fortress. Meanwhile mobsters were on their wav out to the Machado estate where they butchered prize cattle, held a barbecue. Havana continued in turmoil...