Word: bantam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during the past two years. Last year it marketed a small line of high-class receivers entirely representative of the Ware reputation. . . . The Ware company has the nucleus of a strong distributor organization throughout the important sections of the U. S., and is now in production on the Ware Bantam, a diminutive receiver which we will all hear a lot about in the next few months...
...Herbert ("Bantam") Austin, maker of sturdy seven-horsepower midget cars, crowed like a full-sized rooster last week over the British Institution of Automobile Engineers of which this year he is President...
...Peruvian man-in-the-street. Hero of the week, cheered to the echo on his every appearance was the President of the Junta, Colonel Luis Sanchez Cerro, in many ways an even more spectacular figure than deposed Dictator Leguia. If five-foot-three Dictator Leguia is a bantam, pugnacious Colonel Cerro, five-foot-flat, is a molecule of a man, an explosive molecule. Brown as a berry, he has been fighting all his life. He is scarred with 16 gunshot wounds. In 1914 leading a revolution against the then President of Peru (who bore the good Nordic name of George...
Twenty-two years ago little Augusto B. Leguia was President of Peru. He was President last week, and for only seven of the intervening years had he been out of office. During his first term abrupt persons kidnaped the kinetic little man, who has been called the "Bantam Roosevelt of Peru," tried to force him to sign a written resignation at pistol's point...
Less responsible organs of Fascist opinion than Il Popolo egged on the current Italo-French war scare by charging that sums voted by the French Parliament will be "diverted eastward" and spent as a "secret subsidy" on the Army of Jugo-slavia's Dictator-King Alexander, staunch, bantam ally of France...