Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philippines outdealt the New Deal in the matter of socialized industry. The Islands' 72,000 sq. mi. of timber are 99% owned by the Government, forested by license. The rich iron mines of Mindanao (second biggest island, after Luzon) are a Government reservation. It owns and works the coal deposits of Batan Island. It has taken over the Philippine Railroad. But to private enterprise is left the all-important agricultural industry, which since 1909 has enjoyed practically free trade with the continental U. S. and whose exported produce in 1933 was worth...
...were having the time of their lives. Burdened with an immense responsibility, faced with the necessity of soon rendering decisions on the constitutionality of AAA processing taxes, the Bankhead Cotton Control Act, TVA (all probably to be argued in December) and later on the constitutionality of the Guffey Coal Act (see col. 3) and the Utilities Act, the Justices began the week by whipping off no less than 21 decisions. None of the decisions affected the New Deal but, with a vigor that belied their age, every one of the nine Justices dissented in from one to five opinions. Four...
...CONCERNING STATEMENTS OF THE GERMAN CONSUL GENERAL AT GENEVA TO A HIGH OFFICIAL OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS THESE REPORTS ARE UNTRUE THE POINT OF VIEW OF GERMANY CONCERNING NEUTRALITY AND NONPARTICIPATION IN SANCTIONS HAS BEEN IN NO SENSE MODIFIED." "Resist!" Two days later a solid trainload of German coal clattered over the Alps, cheered Italians by arriving in their midst with Nazi exhortations chalked on the freight cars in German and Italian: "Resist! Resist! Resist!'' At Berlin the neutrality policy of the Realmleader was said by his aides to be approximately that of President Roosevelt and absolutely...
...Prague last week the Czechoslovak Government clarioned that after Nov. 18 (the deadline for applying sanctions; no more Czechoslovak coal will be shipped to Italy. Rushing off 300 carloads to Italy last week, Czechoslovaks eased their pricking consciences by officially designating each of the 300 carloads of coal as a "sample." Why they should send samples to a nation to which they do not expect to sell more coal was a question Czechoslovaks answered with bland shrugs...
Only in his writing was Beaumarchais honest, for with a queer, premonitory genius he created, not records of what had happened, but symbolic representations of what was to come. In the poisonous atmosphere of France of his time, he responded in the way that birds taken into coal mines respond to the first faint whiff of gas, to developments of which less sensitive spirits were unconscious. When the Revolution actually broke out, he was horrified. Forced to run for his life, he was imprisoned, exiled. The only time he ever realized his ambition to mingle on equal terms with...