Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States had a moral duty to continue her occupation. Moral duties and constitutionalities have little weight with Senator Smoot's sugar lobby, however, and considering the obvious desirability of increasing local and Cuban sugar production, the nobility of Bacon's sentiment was better quashed than quaffed. In an era of economic nationalism, the charitable support of colonial possessions, however Christian, must be swept away. Philippine motes are ocularly harmless compared with the beam of depression. The McDuffie Bill remains a rough-hewn measure, but, even if Congress insists on eating its cake and having it too, there's time...
...Japan to build more fighting ships, confirmed his country's determination to modify the 5-5-3 naval ratio imposed by the Washington Treaty.* But even while the world last week was making its financial blue prints for new weapons of death and destruction for an oncoming era of intensive nationalism, talk of another war just ahead seemed to be subsiding and the taut strings of suspicion and jealousy slacked off perceptibly...
...dissolution, dissipation and insanity, there are at least 35 Habsburg princelings living. The most stupidly reactionary family in Europe, they are for the most part either dissolute or fanatically Catholic, but to those who do not know them they represent the glories and the comforts of a vanished era. Sad old Franz Josef I died in 1916 without male issue after his only son Rudolf had been mysteriously killed at Meyerling in 1889. The throne would then have passed to the Emperor's nephew. Franz Ferdinand, had not that Archduke been assassinated with his morganatic wile at Sarajevo...
...Sheba's name was Balkis, that she went to Solomon in fear and trembling. Consensus of scholars is that the capital of Saba (Sheba) was Mareb, about 750 mi. from last week's putative discovery. Once a flourishing and autonomous trade centre, during the early Christian era Mareb fell to successive conquerors and its decay was hastened by the collapse of a great irrigation dam. Modern explorers have found the ruins and numerous inscriptions to identify them, but no mention of any queen. Some authorities suggest that a queen may have lived in the north of Arabia...
...elements that make for the success of "David Harum" are all taken from an earlier era when the words "boom" and "depression" were blessedly technical terms. James Cruze, the director, is the man who directed. "The Covered Wagon." The story is almost Mark Twain style. The star is a product of rural America...