Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign Secretary Eden to state his case. The use of poison gas against the Ethiopians was the point at issue, and he had eight specific instances of it between Dec. 30, and mid-March. The Suez Canal Co. reported that over 250 tons of Italian poison gas had passed the canal in the last four months. Italy must either agree to an immediate armistice or face an oil embargo, was the Eden ultimatum...
...Senate committee that "Had we not won that battle, we would have been a British colony west of the Mississippi." The fact is ... historians now agree that the Battle of New Orleans was fought before not after, the War of 1812 was over. Said the Treaty of Ghent, signed Dec. 24, 1814: "All hostilities, both by sea and land shall cease as soon as this treaty shall have been ratified by both parties, as hereinafter mentioned." The treaty was not ratified by the U. S. until Feb. 17, 1815. Hostilities were not expected to cease until the treaty was ratified...
...outlandish practice of calling Iran Persia. Last November the King of Kings was hopping mad over the outrage committed on the person of his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the U. S. Ghaffar Khan Djalal by some uncouth "Marylanders" in an unheard of place called Elkton (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). When his car was stopped for some thing called "speeding," the Khan and his beautiful, blonde English wife naturally struck aside the peasant constable. The Khan had been manacled and haled before a Justice of the Peace who had somehow had the discernment to recognize his high Iranian...
Divorced. James F. Goodman, railway conductor & nudist; by Susie Wise Goodman; in Los Angeles. Grounds: desertion. Smartly attired, she explained to the bench that her "health wedding" to Nudist Goodman on the shores of Lake Elsinore (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933) was a "publicity stunt," that they had previously been wed, fully clothed, in New Mexico...
Acquitted, Dorothea Wendt Livermore, 38, divorced wife of Wall Street Plunger Jesse Livermore Sr.; of assault charges after shooting her 16-year-old son Jesse Jr. while he was staging a drinking bout in her California home (TIME, Dec. 9); in Santa Barbara, Calif. In absolving his mother, Jesse Jr. testified that the gun went off when he forced it into her hands as the climax of a maudlin "mock death scene...