Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-dozen fronts, Republicans made news last week as the party which used to be called Grand as well as Old bestirred itself for the fall elections...
...agreement, strictly on a two-nation basis, made no mention of Austrian debts owed the U. S., France and half-a-dozen smaller powers. At the time of repudiation, these nations, with Britain, lodged stiff protests in Berlin. Britain, however, was the only power in a position to bring the Reich to any sort of terms. Since Britain annually buys $49,440,000 more goods from Germany than she sells, all she had to do was to clamp on exchange clearing control, deduct the debt payments from British money owed German exporters. Germany acted before this got beyond the threat...
...sanctuary and scholarships to the students fleeing the universities of the Fascist countries "because of their belief in democracy." They would be selected by the International Student Service, chosen for ability to make "a positive contribution to American life." Dr. Urey hoped that large universities would each take a dozen or more refugees, that by the fall at least a thousand would be imported to U. S. campuses. Said the appeal: "The victims whose intellectual and moral lives we ask you to save are found among Catholics, Jews and Protestants...
Challenging Gargantua in order to test his theory. Pundit Tunney continued: "Unfortunately, I am no longer in fighting shape. However, I would like to take up the offer [said to have been made by Ringling Bros.] for any one of a dozen third-rate heavyweights I know...
Recalled last week in closed session for the purpose of naming names, Commissioner Payne seemed pretty much of a fizzle. He showed up with no evidence against his fellow Commissioners. He did repeat the names of a half-dozen well-known lobbyists. Nevertheless, the Rules Committee, led by its hard-boiled chairman, Tammanyite John Joseph O'Connor, voted for an investigation. In doing so they overrode protests by FCC Chairman Frank Ramsay McNinch, who well knew that a comprehensive investigation would involve not only broadcasters but also his Commission. He is already conducting a monopoly investigation...