Word: ceded
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...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...
...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...
...Tower up to August 1934, that we have both convinced gum manufacturers of a worthwhile potential of "gum-chewers" in our respective readerships. You carried 1,144 lines and we carried 2,145 lines of gum advertising which definitely gives us the lead. So that perhaps we ought to cede you the position of the gumchewers magazine and we will take the post of the gumchewingest magazines...
...part of the dollar. It brought France still another advantage, for no gold will have to cross the Channel to upset foreign exchange further. The Bank of France already holds ?30,000,000 sterling left over from her purchases before the franc was stabilized in 1928. This she will cede to the French Treasury when the loan must be paid off. Britain, too, won a big advantage in the loan. The money is to be put up by private British banks, leaving the equalization fund untouched for further exchange maneuvers. Both French and British officials loudly insisted that the idea...