Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would produce a favorable psychological effect abroad, might even relax tariff barriers now raised against U. S. motor exports. But what many an independent motorman feared was that big U. S. concerns-Ford and General Motors -already equipped with factories abroad, would produce cars by cheap labor for shipment back to the U. S. duty free to undersell the U. S. market. Henry Ford's fabrication of tractors in Ireland with the privilege of bringing them into the U. S. duty free as "agricultural implements" lent strength to this fear, foreshadowed dissension in the industry on a tariff...
...opponents [in Bulgaria] have made all kinds of false accusations, such as that I intended to put back the Tsar Ferdinand on the throne. That was not true, because Ferdinand is always able to return to Bulgaria. He vacated the throne voluntarily and was not expelled from the country...
...several laws intended to weaken Baptist activities (TIME, April 22). Last week, Russian Baptists, still strong, conducted a mass and total Baptism in the Moscow River. Horrified the Soviet Working Moscow editorialized: "Right here in Moscow! With the All Union Atheist Convention just ended and the delegates not yet back home- with the Soviet Congress not a month ago having passed a resolution limiting religious propaganda-and what do we see? An incredible proceeding-a mass Baptism by a religious cult in the Moscow River- in the heart of the proletarian section of the city-under the very walls...
Teena, however, offers no congratulations. "Get Louie back," she mutters to Jencic. "Ask me anything you want to and I'll give it to ye, but you got to promise to get him and see that he comes here...
...this gaudy cycle there occurs a sound cinema of Comedian Eddie Cantor, who wrote the libretto, singing a song of his own devising called "Legs, Legs, Legs." Thereafter a large and lovely group of girls attired in summery yellow dresses crowd out upon the stage, lie on their backs on an imitation grass terrace, raise their legs high in the air and wave them slowly to & fro. This revel sets the pitch for the rest of the entertainment, which fulfills every standard-anatomical, luxurious, careless-that is associated with Producer Carroll. There is even a bath-tub interlude. Prominent among...