Word: counters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speech from the Throne (TIME, Dec. 3) to the point of extreme provocation to the German Government. In effect His Majesty's Government branded Adolf Hitler as a violator of the Treaty of Versailles, accused Nazidom of preparing to devastate England by air raids, and threatened energetic counter measures in the event that Germany does not return to the League of Nations and behave herself...
...election largely to Catholics!" was the alarm sounded last year by Mexico City's independent daily El Universal Gráfico. Its editor thought he smelt a Papist in charge of Roosevelt patronage. Belief that the President, impelled by the Church, would crack down on Mexico's counter-clerical government was so strong that the official daily National took time to mourn for "Calvin Coolidge, one of the highest representatives of the human race. . . . Under [his] administration Mexico became better understood. . . . He had the good judgment to send us Mr. Morrow...
...establish "a decent American civilization" is admirable but it is doubtful if such a plan of isolation and independence that he suggests would accomplish this purpose. Nationalism eventually leads to a false idea of unity and self-sufficiency and while not "perverse" is certainly naive, short-sighted, and counter to all the traditional ideas and laws of economics...
Critics charged Kingsford-Smith with trying to set up a "counter-attraction" to the main show. Replied he: "In this flight, more difficult than the England-to-Australia race, I will show that l am no squib...
...three Pinto brothers-Angelo, Biagio, Salvatore-because they are protégés of Philadelphia's Dr. Albert C. Barnes and are included with his Cezannes, Matisses and Picassos in his big private museum.* Angelo was showing a blue-trousered dart thrower leaning against an amusement park counter tended by a pretty girl in red uniform ($300). Biagio, youngest of the three brothers, had a red-nosed clown with guitar ($650). Salvatore's picture of sprawling bathers at a public beach was priced...