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...could add women, said the President] who know who are leading the armies into Macedonia, where their camps ought to be placed, what strategical positions ought to be occupied. . . . They not only lay down what ought to be done, but when anything is done contrary to their opinion they arraign the consul as though he were being impeached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: 2,109 Years Ago . . . | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...unable to keep the Board of Estimate from appropriating his expenses, which have run to $280,000 per year. Police Commissioner Valentine gave him a special squad of policemen and detectives too young to be tainted by corruption or disillusionment. Third, he needed an honest, fearless judge to arraign and try his prisoners. Such a man was State Supreme Court Justice Philip James McCook, who was assigned to conduct a special trial term for his cases, has since been continued for two more terms. A scholarly jurist whose off-bench fun is farming at Niantic, Conn., Justice McCook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Fight Against Fear | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...Duff-Cooper went on to arraign, without actually mentioning names, almost everything for which Germany, the Nazis and Adolf Hitler stand as "detestable ideals." Cried he: "I affirm that not only our frontiers but also our ideals are in mortal danger. It is therefore on the two great democracies of the western world- Britain and France-that there now rests the terrible responsibility of saving not only our persons but the civilization we have created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Your Frontier is Ours! | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...timid to arraign Germany by name before the League, the Conference shoved off that duty upon France (see p. 20) but vented its feelings thus: "It was regretfully recognized that the method of unilateral repudiation of the Treaty of Versailles] adopted by the German Government, at a moment when steps were being taken to promote a freely negotiated settlement of the question of armaments, had undermined public confidence in security of a peaceful order. Moreover the magnitude of the declared program of German rearmament, already well in the process of execution, had invalidated the quantitative assumptions on which efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Island Diplomacy | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...Abyssinian troops were supposed to have been sent slogging down through the mud toward Italian Somaliland. In Addis Ababa the wart, smart Emperor of Abyssinia received guests while fondling three cocker spaniels given him in happier times by Italy's Little King, announced that this week Abyssinia will arraign Italy before he League Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABYSSINIA: 6,000,000 Rounds | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

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