Word: cancels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan's War Minister General Gen Sugiyama told a committee of the Tokyo Diet fortnight ago that even the versatile Japanese could not fight 450,000,000 Chinese and play games simultaneously; that if the "China incident" continues, it might be best to cancel the 1940 Olympics. Next day the Japanese Olympic organizing committee, pooh-poohing opposition as coming "from a small and not very strong group of extreme Nationalists or Fascists," announced a 5,000,000-yen ($1,450,000) budget for a Tokyo Olympic village. On his way to Cairo, Egypt, where the International Olympic Committee...
...about saddling French women with various legal disabilities of which many a virile soldier would approve.* Last week several of these shackles were struck off by a bill which originated in the Senate, was passed into law by the Chamber. It did not give French women the vote, did cancel at one stroke the network of laws under which a French wife has been almost as much under her husband's authority as though she were a minor child, unable to sign a check without his countersignature, helpless to make a will or contract without his express approval, unable...
...decent" woman of wealth makes proper provision for the man who "lives with her" and does not make him feel he is accepting "charity," firmly asserted the Member of Parliament. His wife, who ceased having him live with her in 1936 and tried to cancel a previous financial settlement, sat with averted eyes. So packjammed was the courtroom with Mayfair socialites that some emerged with torn coats...
Party, whose secretary general is J. Stalin, to cancel last week a proclamation which announced in mid-December that January 1938 had been designated "The Stalinist Month of Stakhanovite Records." Instead, Stalin ordered a complete revision of the whole Stakhanovite system during January and February, set March as the probable month in which a new system of speedups will be tried...
...circularized by her enemies as "German spy, Bolshevik agent and swindler of Henry Ford," by her friends as "the world's most powerful woman." Last week in Manhattan, after acknowledging her award with a speech proposing a World Federation of Nations, she lamented that the prize money would cancel only her "most pressing" debts...