Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dairymen that Filipino coconut oil was competing unfairly with their farm products. From the South cottonseed oil men joined the chorus of complaint. This outcry against the Philippines as an agricultural competitor was centred on Congress. There the representatives of the different groups coalesced, formed a sizeable bloc in favor of casting the Philippines loose for the prime purpose of putting them outside the U. S. tariff wall.- Reality or Reflection? This turn of the economic wheel in Congress on Philippine independence, long a dead issue, gave the islands' politicos fresh hope. This they transmitted to the Filipino populace...
...majority bloc of the Chamber reasserted its dignity next day by expelling from the party four quick-triggered Deputies-all of them adherents of Jalisco's Governor de la Mora...
...Jake sold out their interest in London's Associated Theatre Properties Inc. (operators of five important West End playhouses: the Apollo, Adelphi, Shaftesbury, Gaiety, His Majesty's) for a reputed price of $2,000,000-$1,000,000 in cash. Control of London's biggest theatre bloc is now in the hands of Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, son of a South African diamond tycoon. Already the owner of the new Cambridge Theatre, Sir Harold plans to acquire two more London playhouses. All these purchases, however, are real state ventures. He will not produce...
Tobacco when he looked at the pile of proxies to be voted in his favor at the stockholders' meeting last week. No similar pleasure accrued to Stockholder Rich ard Reid Rogers who had attempted to muster a bloc in protest of President Hill's $2,000,000 bonus (TIME, March 23). When balloting time came Dissenter Rog ers saw his candidate for the directorate receive a paltry 11,980 votes out of 2,627,953. Angry, he spoke of carrying on his uphill anti-Hill fight in the courts. Emptier Plates. From a sales volume...
...into a political union, a move which would be in direct contradiction to the terms of the Versailles and St. Germala treaties stipulating Austrian independence. France feels that the union will be extended further to include her allies, Roumania and Gzechoslovakia, in an attempt to create a Central European bloc under German leadership...