Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liberals had no trouble making the point that Premier Duplessis had raised the conscription issue to cover the appalling state of Quebec's finances. Showing that the provincial public debt, having been $150,000,000 when the Union Nationale took over, was now at least $286,000,000, they made no specific charges but cleverly asked: "Where has it gone?" The Duplessis campaign promises began to get vague. Then the Federal Government came out against him: the three Quebec Liberals in the King Cabinet threatened to resign if he won, and spectacular Minister of Justice Ernest Lapointe, who might...
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...even so the advice of his soldiers was probably merely cover. For the sum mer he had been waiting on events to turn in his favour and had been making his preparations to seize the opportunity, when it was offered to him. The Russian Pact appeared to give him the advantage which he was seeking and thereafter there was no time to lose, if mud was not to be added to Poland's allies...
...summer of 1937 James had his first taste of war when he was sent out to China to help cover the Sine-Japanese conflict. That December when the Japanese army was threatening Nanking, the American embassy staff and all other nationals were evacuated to the Panay...
...Memoriam-the Profit Motive," read a black-bordered box on the cover. "Honorary pallbearers will be men prominent in the textile industry." Inside the pamphlet the textile industry read the summary of its sins-a loss of $98,094,000 for the ten years ending with 1935. Said he, ironically: "Perhaps if we defend our privileges and rights (to sell for less than cost) we may be able to lose even more in the period from...