Word: aftermaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catalonia where the ordinarily non-voting Anarcho-Syndicalists voted for the first time. The Right had dropped from 228 to less than 200. The Centre had snaked out some 65 Deputies, with the Right-Centre coalition claiming a majority of the Cortes' 473 members. As usual, the election aftermath was turbulent. A "state of alarm" was declared when elated Leftists rioted in principal cities, stormed jails in attempts to release 30,000 of their comrades jailed in 1934. Exuberantly in Alicante they turned loose the inmates of the local leprosarium...
...extraordinary growth has been the tendency of basket ball to grow more violent every year. The winter's noisiest basketball row broke last week. Undefeated in 20 games, New York University's team of one Swede, one Irishman and eight Jews lost to Georgetown, 36-10-34. Aftermath was a sizzling editorial in one of N. Y. U.'s four campus papers charging that the "health and safety of the players" was endangered by "Georgetown's insane . . . Jew-hating following," demanding that athletic relations be severed...
...Prepared as an aftermath of the de Clifford manslaughter case (TIME, Dec. 16 et seq.) to abolish the right of an accused lord to trial by his peers. Reason: taxpayers object to forking up the $50,000 such trials can cost. Introducing a motion to brand the right of a peer to trial by the House of Lords as "archaic," Bachelor Viscount Sankey, recently Lord Chancellor, last week declared...
...well in mind, the market hesitated for only a few hours after the overthrow of AAA, then surged upward in a series of 3,000,000-share days that last week carried the industrial averages to new highs since November. Thus did business register its long view on the aftermath of AAA.* However, most businessmen were more concerned last week with the immediate results of AAA's passing upon these commodities...
...title of his first lecture, to be delivered on Wednesday, January 22, will be "The Aftermath of the Civil War"; the second on the following day is titled "Burial of the Hatchet, 1898 - 1901"; the last will be given on Friday, January 24, on the subject "British-American Policies in the Far East Since...