Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blocks, cells, wardens. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, he was made head of the Labor Front, proceeded forcibly to liquidate the free trade unions, numbering 4,000,000 members. In his ability to incite-and entertain, he combined the talents of Billy Sunday and Billy Rose. He staged the vast Nürnberg Party rallies each year, and built the "Strength Through Joy" organization, which mass-produced recreation, playgrounds, loyalty-all convertible for war uses...
Campaigning for brother-in-law Governor Earl Kemp Long, limpid-eyed ex-Senator Rose McConnell Long, widow of Louisiana's loquacious Kingfish, made an eleven-word speech to expectant voters of Donaldsonville, La.: "I am happy to be here and thank you very much...
...Stanley was permitted only a brief statement, but as the hearing neared its close the most persistent man in Wall Street plowed back to his favorite subject. Said he: "... I put my own ideas in the form of a memorandum which I would like very much to submit. . . ." Up rose Leon Henderson: "I object. ... I regard it as decidedly a disregardance of the orderly presentation of information. ... If it needs any stronger language I will be glad to offer...