Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year just closed German shipping took the worst beating suffered by the merchant marine of any nation whatsoever. Last week, less than 20 months after the merger was consummated, frantic Nazis abruptly split the two companies they had merged into five. "The reason is," explained Realmleader Hitler's Shipping Commissioner Essberger, "we have found that it is the large German shipping companies which have suffered most. So we must have more small companies." With his chronic German inferiority complex telling him how silly this must seem abroad, Commissioner Essberger blazed: "It makes no difference what foreigners say about...
...their own vice president, a beet-nosed banker named José Luis Tejada Sorzano. Last month another presidential election was approaching. President Salamanca, who had already lost one son in the War, wanted to elect a Genuine Republican successor and keep the war going. He was faced with the worst kind of campaign material: news of the great Paraguayan victories on the northern front. Since he had assured his countrymen again & again that Fort Ballivian was "impregnable," he ordered his generals to take most of their troops out of Ballivian and run a rousing counteroffensive in the north...
...large, Manhattan intelligentsiacs have for years oh-ed and ahed in front of her malicious black-&-white portraits. Like all good caricaturists, her bite is worse than her bark. This collection of 39 caricatures of prominent U. S. figures shows Artist Bacon at her best, her victims at their worst. A literate craftswoman (she versifies with skill), Artist Bacon supplements her sketches with verbal notes, sometimes as acidly to the point as the finished drawing. Some of them...
Until now the business-men have been their own worst enemies. A rugged individualist with tears in his eyes is a sorry spectacle. When those whose interests are most vitally involved in the system of private enterprise can find no better defence of their beliefs than twaddle about liberty and Americanism, they must expect others to become slightly bored. The new tone is encouraging. Regardless of the New Deal majority in Congress one can expect more intelligent opposition in the future. Only by this means can the parliamentary system be saved...
Declaring even this too sweeping, "concession" to Kipling's lesser breeds without the law, London's super-Tory Morning Post alarmed that the Linlithgow Report "confirms the worst fears of the Conservatives of the country." On Dec. 4 moderate Conservative Stanley Baldwin will stake his position as Leader of the Party before its Central Council on the Linlithgow Report. He threatened last week to resign if defeated by die-hards Winston Churchill...