Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recognize Rebel Spain as the only legal Spanish Government, which would mean withdrawing recognition simultaneously from Loyalist Spain. This would give Generalissimo Franco the legal international right of starving out the Loyalists even if he could not conquer them. Illegally he is already doing just that. Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's Eire Government jumped the gun by according immediate recognition to the Generalissimo...
...Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, once an I. R. A. leader himself, has kept discreetly quiet, content to disregard the bomb-planting of his old cronies so long as they did not plant any under him. Last week he received a letter threatening violence if he did not join up. The Prime Minister then instructed his Minister of Justice to rush through Eire's Parliament bills giving the Government power to arrest suspected extremists on suspicion, execute them after a summary trial before secret military tribunals...
...outskirts of Indianapolis, not in a racing car but in his 1939 Chevrolet sedan, he got off the road on a soft shoulder. The car skidded, hurtled off an embankment, pitched out a man who was as well known to latter-day race fans as were Wishart, De Palma and Rickenbacker before the War. Two days later, as it will to 30,000 far less skillful and less famed motorists in 1939, death came to "Wild Bill" Cummings...
...Lorenzo Cardinal Lauri, Grand Penitentiary of the Holy Roman Church, Pius XI, propped up by pillows, whispered his confession, received absolution for his sins. Then attendants washed the Pope's face, hands and feet for their anointing in the last rite: extreme unction. The Monsignor Sacristan, Alfonso de Romanis, parish priest of the Vatican, sprinkled the still room and its grave company with holy water. "Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, 0 Lord, and I shall be cleansed...
...nothing herein contained shall be construed to interfere in any way with the basic principles of the Constitution which assures every citizen freedom of thought and speech," the oath does not appear to deviate too far from the precepts of democracy. But, unfortunately, this law has quite a different de facto meaning when it is enforced in a community where there is strong local feeling against alien social systems like Communism and Socialism. Using the pledge to uphold the Constitution as a convenient excuse, local authorities have time and time again made this law an effective barrier against teaching...