Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parliament, principally because its parties could not agree on certain constitutional alterations which Josef Pilsudski thinks necessary. So he had the President declare him Prime Minister (his only office hitherto has been Minister of War) and dissolve the Sejm and Senate pending November general elections. For his cabinet he chose five of the "colonel group." With the aid of his War veterans' organization, he may be able to elect a sizeable majority of his supporters next November. Aperiodically Dictator Pilsudski calls in the newspaper reporters and pours out a string of abuse on the Sejm (Lower Chamber), its members...
President Hoover had searched the land over for a suitable person to head the Commission he expected to flex out the "inequalities and injustices" of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. Scared of Senatorial inquisitions, men he wanted would not take the post. Finally he chose the suave, immaculate guide and counselor of his pre-inaugural South American tour...
...Michael and St. George (1919), Knight Commander of the Bath (1926). (He must wear the insignia of those orders at the Winnipeg medical convention.) Professionally he had been "made" long before. It is ten years since his grateful monarch and good friend elevated him to the peerage. He chose the title Lord Dawson of Penn because (it is said) he traces his ancestry to the great William Penn's family...
...view of NYRBA's unhappy position in South America, Pan-American officials chose to speak of the current deal as a "purchase of assets," not a "merger." The fact is, Aviation Corporation of the Amercas,* holding company for P. A. A., offers one share of its stock for 5 ¼ shares of NYRBA. Aviation Corp. of the Americas will straightway scrap the acquired company, turn the physical assets (including 32 airplanes, numerous terminals, floats, radio stations...
...Bondage has been suppressed by the Indian Government. Pamphleteer Thompson records that fact but does not see fit to mention that the real dynamite in the Sunderland book was its quotations from Prime Minister MacDonald in the days when as an independent Laborite he could say what he chose: "A thousand and one reasons are given for a little more tutelage [for India]. . . . Now plain, practical common sense should come to our rescue. Nobody can imagine that any harm will come from independence. Let independence be granted...