Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abandon Malta. In other words, the wholly inadequate Malta defenses will be maintained as they are, for moral effect. Virtual abandonment of Malta as a main Empire naval base took place months ago when the major units of the British Mediterranean Fleet scuttled off to Alexandria (TIME, Sept. 30 et...
...twisting world public opinion around until it cried for Democracy there has never been anything like the original French Revolution. Last week in many lands grave heads were wondering what plain Jean Frenchman, a million strong, may now be starting with his spontaneous and uncontrolled strikes (TIME, June 8, et seq.), his gay singing of Red songs in the anxious streets of Paris, his candid nose-thumbing, half amused and half contemptuous, at new Premier Blum of the Third Republic...
Fortnight ago at its General Assembly in Syracuse, N. Y. the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. formally suspended Rev. Dr. John Gresham Machen and five of his super-orthodox Fundamentalist colleagues because they refused to resign from their Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions (TIME, June 8, et ante). Last week in Philadelphia, with the confidence of his independent income, determined Dr. Machen set about founding a new and "true" Presbyterian Church...
After year and a half of vicious newspaper opposition, sales tax resentment, Lindbergh-Hauptmann-Wendel-Schwarzkopf misrepresentations, disappointed job seekers and political monkey-wrench-throwing of Everett Colby et al., my total vote was well within 10% of the total vote I polled in the Gubernatorial primary of 1934. Believe it or not, I consider the results of May 19 primary, 1936, as most satisfying of 15 successive political victories...
...verdict was handed down on the recent case in which part of Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain's new Budget leaked out in advance to speculators who made small killings by insuring with Lloyd's Underwriters against new and higher taxes (TIME, May 4 et seq.). Because the secrets thus disclosed in criminal violation of the Official Secrets Act were known to every Cabinet member, to high Treasury civil servants and even to Government printers, Britons last week awaited earnestly the findings of Parliament's Special Tribunal of Inquiry over which presided testy and upright Justice...