Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are two kinds of dictators-the chieftain type and the medicine man type. Hitler is the latter. He is a medium. German policy is not made; it is revealed through Hitler. He is the mouthpiece of the gods...
...China's Great Wall and beckoning with drawn sword for a Chinese army to follow him over the wall and into Japan's Manchukuo. The Christian birthday cake of the Dictator carried not 50 candles but replicas of 50 foreign-built bombing planes of the latest type which are the Chinese people's birthday present to Chiang Kaishek. Coolies have given coppers, bankers silver bars, and so much money was collected for the Birthday Airplane Fund that the Government last week expected to be able to buy an additional 50 war planes. Unconfirmed was an exuberant Nanking...
...your comments on the Vanderbilt Cup motor race (TIME, Oct. 19) you implied that the reason the U. S. cars were so soundly beaten was that they were not adapted to the Roosevelt Raceway type of circuit. This opinion, widely held, is only partly right. It is true that the Europeans, with their multiple speed, quick-shifting gearboxes and tremendous brakes had a great advantage, but it is equally certain that they could trounce any of our cars on any kind of a course...
Only trouble with this type of campaign was that it did not make Socialist votes. Undeterred by the prospect that he would run a poor fourth in the election in spite of being on the ballot in more States (39) than any other third-party aspirant for the White House, indefatigable Mr. Thomas last week sallied forth into New England and New York to provide more free adult education...
Caterpillar Tractor, largest U. S. maker of Diesel-type power units, reported third-quarter profits of $2,551,379, compared to $1,403,491 in the same three months last year. Profits for the nine months were $7,032,470 as against $4,311,643 in the same period...