Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lloyd George's automobile sped toward Kingsway Hall, Lon, where 1,500 delegates of his party (Liberal) were assembling to decide whether they would support his well-advertised Land Tenure Reform scheme (TIME, Sept. 28 et seq.). Mr. George's motor accidentally crashed into one of the stanchions of the hall, stopped. Mr. George stepped out of the wreckage, entered the hall...
During the recent "freak" Canadian election, that jovial Liberal, Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, was astonished to find himself defeated for his own seat in the Canadian House of Commons (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq). He incurred the contemptuous nickname of "Seatless Mac" from his delighted Conservative enemies...
...Reason. Throughout the world financiers placed this discouraging value upon the franc (the record "low" since the Morgan loan) because at Paris there continued, in the Chamber of Denuties, that ignoble squabble (TIME, Feb. 22, et ante) which has brought the legislative machinery of France to practically a full stop within the last few weeks...
Signora Matteotti, widow of the reputedly Fascist-murdered millionaire Socialist Deputy (TIME, June 23, 1924, et seq.), commented bitterly upon an announcement made last week that the five men now charged with the "unpremeditated murder" of Matteotti are to be tried at Chieti next month. Said she: "I am withdrawing my lawyers. I shall ignore the trial. Through the machinations of the Fascist government those actually to blame will not be tried. It would be repugnant to me to participate in such a comedy...
...week opened, the Deputies of the Left parties, composing former Premier Herriot's famed but unstable Cartel des Gauches, continued their efforts (amid great confusion) to get the Cartel finance bill voted item by item (TIME, Feb. 15, et ante...