Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jerusalem stacks of freshly printed placards and pamphlets proclaiming martial law were on hand, ready in case of trouble to be posted up or dropped from British bombing planes. The battle cruiser Repulse sped from Malta to Palestine this week, her decks carrying a full flight of airplanes. Mild High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, who has governed Palestine for several years with a policy of "muddling through," was reported in Jerusalem dispatches as slated to receive a peerage and be replaced in Palestine by drastic Sir John Anderson, the efficiently ruthless sahib who, as Governor of Bengal, suppressed...
...sounder William Randolph Hearst. His return from New York was not entirely a Waterloo. He was sad because he had killed his dearly beloved New York American (TIME, July 5).* He felt wiser because he had at last taken the advice of his business associates who urged him to drop or consolidate losing properties. He was sounder because he was putting his financial house in order all along the line and had just concluded a constructive deal in Rochester and Albany...
...knew you were a gentleman." Just before the Steel Mediation Board adjourned Tom Girdler hurried off to Washington to testify before the Senate Post Offices Committee on C.I.O. interference with the mails, a subject which the committee later voted to drop. In fighting fettle, the tightlipped, hooknosed, bespectacled steelman put on an exciting show. Having read a spiced-up version of the statement given to the Mediation Board, Mr. Girdler immediately opened up on Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey, no member of the Post Offices Committee but on hand for a morning of Girdler-baiting. The Committee had understood from...
Meanwhile the 131 railroads which operate 97% of the nation's tracks compromised with the Brotherhoods by agreeing to put the power reverse gear on all new engines and on old ones brought in for Class 2 repairs. The Brotherhoods then asked the I.C.C. to drop the matter, but the I.C.C., anxious to assert itself, refused. Last week it ruled that the gear must be installed on all new engines and on old ones brought in for Class 3 repairs.* The minor U. S. roads for whom the change will be a major expense indicated that they would again...
...commander, his wife and an old geologist on their homeward journey across the Siberian Desert. Coming by chance upon a spring frequented by a band of marauding Baschmachi tribesmen, the commander (Ivan Novoseltsev) decides to trap the bandits when they shortly arrive for water. One by one the defenders drop before overwhelming hordes until by the time help comes only Private Akchurin (Ilya Kuznetsov) remains...