Word: cede
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Already in the streets was a Franco manifesto packed with high Latin bombast: "The War was won despite the Government and the encyclopedic ineptitude of the army high command, thanks to the heroism and abnegation of the people. . . . The new Government will arrange a just peace with Bolivia, cede to the homeless the lands now owned by the wealthy, colonize the country with Paraguayans instead of undesirable foreigners, grant subsidies to war widows and mutilated veterans...
...obvious on all sides. Many M.P.s sat up to listen as though hearing for the first time much which they might have read weeks and months ago in the Press. As if for the first time, the House seemed to learn that last autumn Haile Selassie offered to cede territory to win Peace*; that Italy has juridical claims upon British and French tolerance of her intrusion of Ethiopia based on the treaty of 1906 and the exchange of notes of 1925; and finally that in the past, when British aid has been offered in a spirit of idealism to native...
...return Haile Selassie offered to cede to Italy most of the southern province of Ogaden and in the north the captured Aduwa-Adigrat section of Tigre Province but not the Holy City of Aksum. All this was also provided in Deal...
...James Ramsay MacDonald who now holds the sinecure Lord President of the Council. Young Mr. MacDonald was saddled last week with the thankless task of defending Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's extraordinary move of letting Premier Benito Mussolini know that His Majesty's Government would have been willing to cede some British territory to Ethiopia if that Empire could have been thus induced to make concessions to Il Duce sufficient to halt his prospective colonial war (TIME, July...
...roundheaded Author Erskine Caldwell (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre) lived in Georgia until about ten years ago when he moved to Maine. Either State would gladly cede him to the other. He outraged his New England neighbors by announcing that "the [Maine] population is dying out from the top as well as from the bottom." His annual visits to his homeland affect civic-proud Georgians as the coming of the bollweevil. Regularly he infuriates them by writing of terrorized Negroes, of poverty, ignorance, depravity, degeneracy among the poor whites. Latest indignity was his series of articles...