Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brief investigation" is the base of an open charge by two undergraduates that last spring $2700 was raised under the false pretense of sending an ambulance to the territory of the Spanish Government. Obtaining money under false pretenses is a criminal act punishable by imprisonment, and the authors of such a written accusation must prove their case or be prepared to defend themselves against a suit for criminal libel...
Hart and Curtiss, frequent letter writers on political subjects, asked the Student Council to make a "prompt and complete probe" of the matter and render an official report. They base their claim that the money was "collected under false pretenses" upon a news dispatch printed in the New York "Herald-Tribune" of August which reported a parade and demonstration of trade unionists and radicals thru New York's Yorktown and Harlem districts, in which Governor Elmer A. Benson, Farm Laborite of Minnesota, made a speech favoring Mayor La Guardia's re-election...
Ever since the Ethiopian crisis, when Italian air power made Britain's base at Malta virtually untenable for her best warships and they withdrew to Egyptian waters for safety, His Majesty's Government have sought some pretext for active co-operation with the French Navy and use of its bases in the Mediterranean by the British fleet. Last week the decisions reached fortnight ago at Nyon for naval co-operation by Britain and France to patrol the Mediterranean and destroy "pirate submarines"* (TIME, Sept. 20), were whipped into final shape at Geneva by the two foreign ministers chiefly...
...since 1931. may be difficult to sell in markets glutted by a record world production of 35,600,000 bales. As a result, cotton prices fell to the lowest in four years-87? a lb. Nonetheless, with a subsidy of 3? a lb. on 65% of the ''base'' production of 16,000,000 bales the farm value of the new crop will be some $1,000,000,000-first billion-dollar crop since...
...representatives of State farmer associations in Washington to discuss and approve the proposed national AAA program for 1938. Major changes are two: 1) benefit payments to be lumped, instead of coming in two categories for "soil-building practices'' and diverting soil-depleting crops; 2) reduction in the base acreages lor the major soil-depleting crops. Cotton, for example, would be reduced from 34 million to 29-31 million acres. Other base acreages suggested: potatoes, 3,100,000 to 3,300,000 acres; rice 825,000 to 875,000 acres; tobacco, 1,400,000 acres; corn...