Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whanging a big dinner bell, the Premier rang to order in Rome the National Council of Corporations, destined, most Italians assume, to supplant the Chamber. In Italy corporazioni ("corporations") are the higher groups which represent the basic Fascist syndicates of employers and employes. Every Italian, whatever his business, trade or profession, is represented by and must pay dues to the local syndicate of his occupation. He need not belong to the syndicate but he is bound by the bargains it makes respecting his wages and working hours or-if he is an employer-respecting the wages he must...
...After that Fordham fought harder than ever and Danowski, alternately carrying and passing the ball, crossed the line standing up. St. Mary's 13, Fordham 6. Systems, If Knute Rockne could return to earth, he might not recognize all the local variations which his system has acquired. His basic idea was to give a smart backfield, big or little, the advantage over a heavier team. (Average weight of the Horsemen was only 164-lb.). Most conspicuous features of his system are a hop-shifting backfield; deft, sidewise blocking in the line; the box forma tion of the backfield...
...Turkish possessions of the Ottoman Empire-Syria. Palestine, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Egypt. Unlike new Germany, new Turkey is led by men who have resolutely forgotten the past. From the start President Kemal, like President Roosevelt ten years later, launched his country on a policy of economic nationalism. Incidental to this basic policy, and far more spectacular, were his Westernizing reforms, his turning of Turkey's face from East to West...
...Under the oil code Texas and Oklahoma last week whittled down their production quotas and Secretary Ickes, hopeful of maintaining the basic Midcontinent price of $1.11 a barrel for crude oil (set three weeks ago), warned producers against cheating under express threat of exercising his "drastic powers." Meanwhile Nature, with a more powerful threat, endangered again the best laid plans of oilmen for keeping down production: in Anderson County, Tex., gushed the discovery well of a new oil field...
...cynical attempt by a great nation to jockey itself into a favorable agricultural market at the expense of its neighbors is a sad thing to see; fortunately M. Daladier's murmurings can no longer prevent France from leaving the gold standard, and so palliating the situation, but the basic ugliness is there and will not be obscured...