Word: banging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hang Brüning! The absence in London of Germany's new Iron Chancellor, pale, nasal Heinrich Brüning, did him no good with German extremists. While the London conference was still in progress, Nationalists streamed into a Berlin hall to hear inflammatory speeches by Deputy Paul Bang (Finance Minister in the brief sinister Kapp "Putsch" government) and Alfred Hugenberg's disciple, Fritz Kleiner. Boomed Bang...
...Author. An Australian "of early pioneer stock," Alice Grant Rosman went to England as a young girl, has lived there ever since. She wanted to write fiction but found newspaper work better pay till 1928, when her first novel, The Window, went up with a bang. Other Books: Visitors to Hugo, The Young & Secret...
...revenue, tax or tariff is changed and it is changed. New revenue rates are automatically effective unless the budget is rejected by Parliament-which almost never happens. Therefore when Hon. Mr. Bennett rose to speak in Ottawa last week he held in his hand the fiscal fate of Canada. Bang-he upped letter postage between Canadian cities from 2? to 3?! Bang-up went the Canadian basic income tax from 8% to 10%! Bang-the sales tax quadrupled from i% to 4% ! Bang, bang, bang-spectacular is the exercise of a British Finance Minister's power...
...their pen to frisk in Havre. They browsed at good road restaurants, brought home tasty food to Tex. Within 48 hours les petites filles had M. Epstein so well in hand that he let Miss Guinan lunch (once) at Havre's Frascati's. Vive la petite fille?then bang! From Paris the Director General of the Surete Generale, M. Maurier, telegraphed that nobody was to be let out of the pen. M. Epstein, Miss Guinan & kids were undone. Kid Anne Boleyn started general hysterics by screaming: "We'll never get to Paris! I want to go home...
...DEATH! At Last-Inside Story of the Fatal Crash." The booklet merely hints that someone might have tampered with the plane; does not even hint at identity or motive. It was published in Minneapolis by Graphic Arts Corp. which is controlled by Fawcett Publications (Capt. Billy's Whiz-Bang, Jim-Jam-Jems...