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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League of Nations, the Emperor, or Prince Tafari as he then was, figured out wisely that if Ethiopia could possibly win membership in the League, she might never need an-other World War to distract the Great Powers from dismembering her. To get into the League, though, was most difficult. Egypt was then and is still barred, for the reason that Britain suspected then and now knows for certain that Egypt, once inside the League, would scream bloody murder for the British to evacuate Egypt. Ethiopia was at first barred. Then Ethiopian statesmen, largely inspired by Prince Tafari, began yielding...
...Samuel concluded that failure of The Deal to go through last week far enough to lay a groundwork for further negotiations "makes the position more difficult and dangerous than it was before. ... I believe that, unless these facts are faced and faced in the immediate future, either the League will break up or a most unsatisfactory peace will result from the conflict which is now taking place...
...average earnings per week worked are $26.99. Passenger car sales in November totaled 215,000 units, biggest November in the industry's history. But by moving ahead the automobile shows and creating an end-of-the-year selling season, the motor makers have made it difficult to compare 1935 production figures with the output of any previous year...
...pose as an "overpowering conservative," stands pat, with "Tea Time Tales" as his offering to the Tories. It is unkind for William Carlos Williams to criticize him as follows: "I'd advise him rather to take up arboriculture, unless he is so extraordinarily devoted to writing at its most difficult that even newspaper reporting doesn't attract him. Poetry is worse than cyanide of potassium to a young man unless he wants to die that...
...individual students it would be difficult in the extreme to draw the line between using professional tutors to help along their self-education, and thus honorably, or merely hiring a third person to get them through college with as little education as possible, which means dishonesty and waste. But only an unimportant and inconsiderable proportion of undergraduates would or will continue to avail themselves of the offending facilities after a statement from the dean's office, threat or no threat...