Word: directed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recalling the fact that some months ago Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain- and the then Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare were major rivals to succeed Squire Baldwin, "Augur" made the direct charge that Mr. Chamberlain and not British public opinion was chiefly responsible for knifing the Hoare-Laval deal which might have made peace between Italy and Ethiopia (TIME, Dec. 30). In the case of the present White Paper, upon which Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Eden jointly lavished their best efforts, "Augur" charged that this was last week in course of being knifed by Sir Samuel Hoare & friends...
Perched on the end of a promontory 40 mi. long, San Francisco has always been cut off from direct connection with the north by the Golden Gate, with the east by San Francisco Bay. Travelers in either direction have had the choice of circling far to the south around the bottom of the bay or crossing it on one of four ferry lines. Last week the end of this ancient inconvenience came closer when workmen hoisted a 50-ft. eyebar from a barge below, finally joined the two halves of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, linked San Francisco...
...coup d'état. As always since the War the stabilizing influence in Greece remained British influence. The millionaire widow of M. Venizelos is the daughter of a British-nationalized Greek. Another British-moneyed fingerer in Greek pies is Munitioneer Sir Basil Zaharoff. King George II himself went direct from London to resume the Greek Throne as the protégé of King George V and London bankers (TIME, Dec. 2). As Greek church bells tolled for Venizelos and Greek flags flew at half mast, Greek censors passed Athens dispatches in which correspondents agreed that the Venizelos party...
...Premier Azaña knew that he could not do was to crack down on the Left mobsters of the Socialist and Communist parties, whose 99 seats in the new Cortes, added to the 165 seats of his own Republican parties, give him his mandate. Nor could he use direct action against the powerful Right coalition of Catholic Leader Gil Robles without inviting civil war. He did, however, espouse the theory that the month's violence had been the work of Rightist agents provocateurs trying to make the victorious Left look bad. Then suddenly he discovered the perfect goat...
Elliot Bacon, Mike Coburn, and Paul Counihan are the receivers who will direct the slants of Jack Allen, Slim Curtiss, Ben Gifford, Dick Klein, and Don Pouty. All the pitchers are right-handed except for Allen, who is a south...