Word: consisting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national: should Scot MacDonald. who up to last week had done no more than leave his Labor friends in the lurch (TIME, Sept. 31), now decree an immediate general election and fight Labor (i.e. Socialism) up & down the land as leader of a new "National Party," this to consist of the Conservatives and Liberals supporting the Prime Minister's "National" Government...
Those interested will meet Nelson and Wallen, on all week-days except Saturdays. The exercises will consist of "calisthenic drill and general all-around 'workout', packed into 45 minutes, and designed to alleviate any depression resulting from overwork...
Canadians went to work; 510 miles of railroad were built and ballasted. Fort Churchill used to consist of a half-dozen trappers' huts, a mounted police detachment, a Hudson's Bay Co. factor's post and a dozen moon-faced Eskimos. Later gangs went in and built the temporary town of wooden barracks that is now known simply as Churchill. The harbor was dredged, the wharf was built, a huge grain elevator put up. Churchill last week had mechanical facilities to handle 800,000 bushels of grain a day. About 530,000 bushels will be sent this...
Parliament will consist of two houses, a Senate and a Skupshtina. Senators must be 40 years of age. will serve six years. Half will be elected by the people, half appointed by the King. Deputies are all elective, will serve four years. Jugoslavia remains divided into the new provinces or Banats. a clever scheme of King Alexander's to break up the old racial groups (TIME, Oct. 14, 1929). But the Governors of the Banats will be given greatly increased powers. Ever-protesting Croatia will resume its old boundaries, with the exception of the old county of Sypmia which...
Magazines which consist "mainly of fiction" will be taxed 15? per pound with a minimum tax of 15? per copy. So will the comic sections and feature sections of newspapers. (U. S. Sunday papers now sell at 10? or 15? in Canada.) Moreover, no tax rebate will be allowed on unsold copies...