Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continued fighting their bloody civil war with armed Radical militia of the Madrid Government which itself estimated that 95% of the officers and 80% of the men of Spain's Regular Army were engaged on the side of the Rebels. During the week General Mola requested journalists to drop the term "Rebels," pointing out that the Franco-Mola forces are operating against a Spanish Government, many of whose members are of such a politically "Rebel" stamp that only a few years ago they sat in jail. Said General Mola: "You should call our forces the 'Patriots...
...went smoothly up to last November when Commander Yamaguchi supplanted Commander Yamaki at the Embassy, coldheartedly resolved to pay Farnsworth on a piecework basis. This sudden drop in income forced the liquor-sodden Farnsworth to go to Newshawk Lewis. It was not long before "Dodo" was in jail...
...expire in January, listened sympathetically to a Highland Falls, N. Y. bigwig who wished to appoint a deserving female Democrat in her stead. The news leaked out. Opposition from all quarters, especially from U. S. Army officials, who considered her post inviolate from patronage, forced "General" Farley to drop his candidate. Last fortnight the Army and Navy Journal charged that James A. Farley was still out to oust Postmistress Harrington...
Hedging is insurance against price changes. When its warehouses are bulging, a 1?-per-lb. drop in cotton would mean a $10,000,000 loss to Anderson, Clayton if its holdings were not hedged...
Chief distinction of Road to Exile, however, is Lussu's malicious portraits of his colleagues who first pledged undying enmity to Fascism, then became prudently neutral, eventually turned Fascist. At one meeting Signer Pietro Lissia told Lussu that unless the cause of liberty was defended to the last drop of blood, it would be a lasting disgrace ''for us and for our sons." Then he added: ''Not that I have any sons myself." He next appeared as the representative in Sardinia of Mussolini's Government...