Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than 500 Austrians died in the civil war which Nazis started in Styria Province at the signal of a bullet fired into heroic little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss' spinal cord (TIME, Aug. 6). Last week the new Government of stern, thrifty Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg took the amazing step of compelling one man to pay the entire cost of Styria's civil...
...teacher finishes chalking sums on the Multi-Use Blackboard Fixture. The pupils step up, reverse the individual sections of the board, pull them out like easels, set to work painting, their work pinned to a cork surface...
...their news of last week's openings, most big U. S. department stores were in constant cable communication with Paris. B. Altman & Co. went a step further, with a transatlantic telephone service. This scheme was originated last year by Altaian's top Fashion Copywriter Laura Hobson. Young, smart Advertising Director John C. Wood planned to launch a display campaign in newspapers and magazines this week to publicize the new designs. The trends of fashions as Altman and other stores studied them last week: There are three predominant silhouets ?medieval, crinoline, Empire. Empire features long toe-length skirts and extremely...
...constitution for the next four years. Most novel provision of this 44-page opus compels each Minister of the Brazilian Government to provide himself with a "brain trust" of technical experts. On this point the new constitution reads: "It is forbidden to any Minister to take a step contradictory to the unanimous opinion of his respective council on any matter that may have been submitted thereto...
...warn you that any step you take toward tying our money in any way to any foreign money is a usurpation of the powers and prerogatives of Congress. . . . Your viewpoint and your activities do not represent the best interests of our people, and your acts are certain to provoke a demand for a Congressional inquiry...