Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long before the New Deal: that the administrative departments and independent agencies of the Government (notoriously the Federal Trade Commission in Republican days, the NLRB and SEC more lately) have compiled vast tomes of offhand, capricious rulings which have the force of law and from which there is no clear recourse...
...Swamped in this sweeping reorganization were Monarchists, militarists, conservatives, who watched post after post go to Falangists, saw Spain's foreign policy drawn nearer the Rome-Berlin Axis. As last week's celebrations marked the passing of more old faces from the scene, they also made it clear that the new figures were emerging, not from the Army, but from the Falange that was crushing its traditional independence...
...started the current game of frontier sniping along the Khalka River is not clear, but last week the Japanese were ready to call it quits. Kwantung Army communiqués announced the destruction of 39 Soviet Mongol planes, bringing its total claimed bag to nearly 500, but beside some of the earlier paper triumphs this was scarcely worth mentioning. The Japanese have learned that the more smashing victories they claim the rougher the Russians play. While Soviet bombers continued their out-of-bounds forays, nothing more was heard of the Japanese threat to carry the war into Siberia...
...mostly run by Rumanians and Greeks, that hovers continuously off the Palestine coast. Crowded miserably aboard them are hundreds of Jewish refugees from Poland, Germany, Rumania, Hungary and former Czecho-Slovakia. At night the vessels edge closer to the shore, watching for the signal lights that mean all is clear for the landing of their cargoes. Since April 1938 more than 15,000 Jewish refugees are estimated to have illegally entered Palestine in this...
...head of a huge clan, he often has his home overflowing with relatives, is called "Uncle Sam" by the kids. No tottering oldster, Uncle Sam Kress at 76 is an erect, handsomely preserved, almost white-headed figure who daily keeps himself in condition at his private gymnasium, credits his clear eye and physical fitness to lifelong moderate habits...