Word: entrenches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...muckraking expedition will Lord MacMillan conduct. Last week in Vancouver, when raucous Barrister McGeer implied that the Commission was being paid to entrench the established banking system in Canada, the Scots Lord dropped his tactful manner, declared it "a monstrous suggestion." (The Commission gets no pay, only expenses.) Chief problem before the Commission is whether to recommend establishment of a central bank in Canada. "Nationalization of credit" and other radical experiments are not likely to appeal to its economically cautious members...
...Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes worked like a nailer to entrench his new Government (TIME, Aug. 21). Most of Havana was gay and businesslike again, even though shots were heard every few hours as long-oppressed Cubans continued their man hunt to kill every member of ousted Tyrant Machado's detested terrorist squads, the Porra, blamed by all Cuba for countless political murders and ghastly torture of prisoners. Meanwhile the big white Cuban problem which most worried Provisional President de Cespedes, U.S. Ambassador Welles and President Roosevelt was-and seems likely to remain-sugar...
...passing a bill along these lines British Tories, who now control both houses, hope to legally entrench the upper house and hamstring any future Labor Government...
Slapping back at Labor, the Tories promptly voted to extend the powers of the House of Lords and if possible to entrench it by legislation against removal by a Labor government. In a series of cut & dried resolutions they then voted full support to the National Government, the present British fiscal policy and the trade agreements resulting from the Ottawa (Tariff) Conference...
June: Premier Laval showed his tough Auvergnat mettle by holding up the Hoover One-Year Moratorium singlehanded, hurling his famed defy?"Presi-dent Hoover can entrench himself behind his Congress and I can entrench myself behind the Chamber"?and hanging on doggedly until the Moratorium was modified into a form acceptable to France...