Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Belligerent Rights. It was part of the Hoare-Laval Deal that withdrawal of British war boats from the Mediterranean would be followed by similar reduction to peace strength of the Italian garrisons in Libya facing the British positions in Egypt which Il Duce crammed with troops to call the Baldwin bluff. Last week a Rome press spokesman confirmed: "We want to see the British ships actually leave." This week Italy emptied Libya of 40,000 troops, announced that it will leave its Libyan air force of 100 bombers and its border fortifications intact...
...harried Minister explained what he had meant by "No." To workmen occupying factories illegally, he said, the Government would first send the local mayor to call them out, then a labor union delegate, then the local member of Parliament, and finally, police without bayonets to shoo strikers out "with care." Placated Communist Thorez thereupon threw his weight back to the Popular Front, saying. "The workers must know how to end strikes...
...course," he declared, "it is premature to say that our weather has definitely changed, but if we have during the next seven years, weather as freakish as that which we have had during the last seven, it may well be that the people of the U. S. will call on the Federal Government in no unmistakable terms to aid them in making certain profound adjustments...
Ethiopia's No. 2 was a demand that the Assembly vote yes or no on whether $50,000,000 shall be loaned to the Ethiopian Government of Haile Selassie. Professor van Zeeland asked for a poll by vocal roll-call. So visibly ashamed were the League delegates not to vote $50,000,000 into the pockets of the Emperor that 23 said "no" in tones barely audible, 25 maintained shamefaced silence, nine were not present, and only the Emperor's doughty General Ras Nassibu shouted out the solitary "YES!" for Justice and $50,000,000. At this result...
...wins the All-Star game is not particularly important. Some players, like Pitcher Carl Hubbell, who two years ago struck out five of the American League's best batsmen in succession, take the affair more seriously than others. Who plays in the All-Star games (rules call for at least one man from each club) is more significant, as a fleeting but true reflection of the huge, changing panorama of sport in the U. S. On last week's squads, baseball addicts found many a name which has for years been part of this panorama. They also found...