Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...will now become a country squire and raise pigs. . . . My resignation as President of the Reichsbank is absolute and final." Thus to flabbergasted Berlin reporters last week spoke Germany's famed "Iron Man," her financial champion at every Reparations conference in recent years, Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht...
...gigantic firm of Siemens & Halske (comparable in Germany to U. S. General Electric) was knocked for a loss of twelve. If the Director of the Reichsbank did not sell short before he handed his resignation to President Paul von Hindenburg, he resisted titanic temptation, proved himself indeed an "Iron...
Slowly the face of the "Iron Man" grew livid, but he controlled himself, answered evenly: "Aside from the damnable insinuation that a man like Mr. Young might use information, if given, for purposes of speculation, the report is absolutely false. I desire to assert emphatically that not even the German Government, but only President von Hindenburg, knew of my intention to resign...
...continues Professor Luyten, "is that it felt cool, in spite of the tropical sun almost overhead, which made the surrounding limestone unpleasantly hot to touch. It is said that this meteor is not magnetic. The results of the chemical analysis show 17.42 per cent nickel and 81.29 per cent iron. This is an unusually high proportion of nickel. It is not surprising, therefore, that the meteor is extremely hard and especially tough. Investigation with a file led to the estimate that this nickel-iron alloy compares in hardness with the hardest steel used on railroads. An idea of the toughness...
...that, his capacity for suffering and his patience in the bearing of it were prodigious and are strangely touching, like stories from the life of a saint. He learned almost nothing, and knew everything that might serve his ends. He was sickly, and bore the most incredible hardships with iron endurance. He sprang from the lowest level of society, and had the manners of a grandee and the epistolary style of a Machiavelli. He knew no enjoyment of life, a home meant nothing to him, his wants were as few as those of a dervish, yet he died of worry...