Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blow of last week's reverse to National Government was especially heavy to young Tory statesmen like Oliver Stanley, whose family has provided statesmen since 1385. If even the Church of England is plumping for a "Square Deal" in 1935, where will these young Tories be 20 years hence, when their elders of today lie in honored graves? Just now two other young Mayfair statesmen comprise with Major Stanley the outstanding trinity of coming non-Laborite leaders...
...Solidest blow aimed at the Court itself in this year's battle was Senator Borah's charge that politics rather than law determines its judgments. For proof he pointed to its 1931 verdict against a German-Austrian customs treaty, when the judges divided according to the diplomatic and commercial interests of their native lands. But Senator Johnson voiced the popular argument when he cried: "We are dealing today with one simple proposition-shall we go into foreign politics ? . . . Once we are in, it does not make any difference whether we are in a little way or whether...
...this secret conference began in Nanking, Shanghai was gloomier than at any time since the Twenty-One Demands. Last year Japan delivered a quiet, crushing blow to Chinese industry by forcing Generalissimo Chiang to lower tariffs on leading Japanese exports to China and up tariffs on leading imports from the U. S., Britain and Russia (TIME. Aug. 20). So slick and silent was that double-edged trade victory that it made scarcely any news in the Occident. Say glum Shanghai tycoons: "To China the new tariffs are as disastrous as the loss of three provinces." Last week they shivered...
...Carlo, sleek, hard Casino Director René Léon, far more potent than fusty old Prince Louis of Monaco, was under withering fire last week from Monégasques who loudly demanded his scalp. On top of the wallop Depression gave Monte Carlo had come a second staggering blow, the decision of the French Government in 1933 to legalize roulette, hitherto a Monte monopoly, in France. Groggy from these two crushers, Director Léon faced last week the minute principality's irate National Assembly. Shouted a deputy who was promptly seconded by Mayor Louis Aureglia of Monte...
...calves from the plains of Texas to the clover fields of Iowa go annually to market. . . . At the slaughterhouse, in the dim bluish light of the knocking pens, a Negro swings his three-pound hammer. Crack! On the steer's skull midway between the scared eyes the blow falls. Great shackles swing down to lift the limp stunned animal, head down, rump high. The short curved knife bites deep into the bristled neck seeking the throbbing artery. Into great cans oozes the dark red blood, 70 Ib. to the steer. . . . Pigs skewered by the feet to an overhead track...