Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus the attitude of Italians toward conquered Ethiopia is Christian in its readiness to collaborate with and convert the heathen, and Roman in its drastic finality. The features of Benito Mussolini in the prime of his conquest are those of an Augustan Caesar. "It is our peace," he told his victorious legions, "Roman peace...
...many an authority (TIME, Feb. 24 et seg.). The best rebuttal of the Bureau was a vote of confidence from more than 1,000 transport pilots. Last week, a subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee disregarded this defense, held the Bureau negligent in the Cutting crash, recommended a drastic overhaul of Bureau personnel...
Five major bills were voted by the Chamber in two exhausting sessions by such colossal majorities as 528-to-7 and 563-to-1. A stand was made by Capital against Labor only on the most drastic measure, that intended to make 40 hours the maximum working week hereafter in French industry. Standard in France since 1919 has been the 48-hour week. The 40-hour week passed the Chamber last week 385-to-175, went to the Senate along with the four other bills which seek to compel two-week vacations with pay for all French workers, collective labor...
...cheapening their money. Unquestionably this week Le Peuple Souverain thought they had won higher wages in gold standard francs, but every fiscal authority agreed that such wages simply cannot be paid in France, unless the franc is cheapened, devalued and Le Peuple Souverain thus duped. Alternatives would be drastic reorganization of French economy by a Bolshevist or Fascist dictatorship set up in the Third Republic...
Huge advertisements in all major Eastern railroad stations this week lured the public with announcements of drastic cuts in fares. None of the posters made mention of the fact that 23 major Eastern railroads were last week settling down to a grim court fight against the Interstate Commerce Commission's order which made the new fares necessary. All 23 meticulously obeyed the order but declared they would reinstate the old fares if the courts would permit. Of all Eastern roads, only the Baltimore & Ohio complied voluntarily, announced the cuts were permanent...