Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With sense really common and widely diffused, John Bull realized by the million last week that the British General Election Nov. 14 is a setup. John reacted with unprecedented apathy. To the acute distress of local candidates, John simply did not attend their meetings. Exactly 26 voters of whom 24 were women were all the audience Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare drew when he returned from Geneva, presumably with earth-shaking news about Europe's crisis. In all constituencies candidates bitterly complained that party leaders had "greatly overdone the wireless." John Bull, feeling that John Bullish Prime Minister Stanley...
...Issues. After one look at the chief election poster of His Majesty's Government (see p. 19) and another at that of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition (see below) the apathy of John Bull seemed to do him credit. In so far as British Labor is articulate, the proletariat voted to go to war with Italy when the strongly anti-Fascist Trades Union Congress demanded that full military and naval sanctions be applied if necessary to whip Il Duce (TIME, Sept. 23). Yet last week Labor Party Leader Major Clement Attlee was imploring voters to "Stop War! Vote...
Twelve times a traitor was spread-eagled on the ground. Twelve times an executioner with a plaited bull whip laid on until quivering flesh and muscles came off in strips and the bones of the black man's carcass gleamed white in Death. After the twelfth horror, Harar's market place resumed its normal function, jammed with horse bargainers who ignored a pack of mangy dogs sniffing hungrily at bloody spots on the cobbles which they had almost licked clean...
...nearly twice its earnings for the full year of 1934. Nine-month sales for the Chrysler group totaled 488,625 cars, about a 40% increase over the 1934 period and about 23% of all U. S. sales. The stock has been a big favorite in the current bull market. On April 1. 1935 it sold at, 34, closed last week...
...eyes, the Examiner assigned her to a children's playground party. There she met a "tall, handsome, well-groomed young man" who helped her quiet a howling moppet. Back in the office she met the tall young man again, answered brusquely when he asked: "What became of the Bull of Bashan?" She then learned that the tall young man was her boss, William Randolph Hearst, who had lately bought "that new paper on Montgomery Street." Since then she has never been brusque with...