Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Means Committee with their ears to the grindstone. Their job was to listen strenuously, so that no one could complain that he had been denied a hearing on the New Deal's plan to rearrange corporation taxes in order to encourage the declaration of dividends (TiME, March 16, et...
...Thorpe Lam son sprawled over the rim of a blood-splattered bathtub. The back of her head was bashed in. In the burning rubbish outside was a discolored iron pipe. Police put two & two together, charged David Albert Lamson with murder in the first degree (TIME, Sept. 11, 1933, et...
...points. The News has attacked vice and misrule under the Kelly regime in Chicago. The Tribune has supported Mayor Kelly, was rewarded when the city changed its clocks to Eastern Standard Time to give the morning Tribune a circulation advantage over the evening News (TIME, March 9 et ante). The Tribune backed Dr. Bundesen and when Kelly said Horner was a hod carrier, the News published a cartoon of the Governor showering bricks on the Mayor...
...were catching up with them. Harar, overlooking Ethiopia's only railway and onetime headquarters of the Ethiopian forces opposing Italy's southern armies, had been bombed to ruins. In the north, after the great battle of Enderta and its smashing sequel at Amba Alaji (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.), all Italy expected to see the Fascist troops sweep bravely on down the main caravan trail to Dessye and Addis Ababa. They did not realize that there were some 280 back-breaking miles between Italy's advance posts and Addis Ababa, that innumerable hordes of undefeated tribesmen still...
...practice of calling Iran Persia. Last November the King of Kings was hopping mad over the outrage committed on the person of his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the U. S. Ghaffar Khan Djalal by some uncouth "Marylanders" in an unheard of place called Elkton (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). When his car was stopped for some thing called "speeding," the Khan and his beautiful, blonde English wife naturally struck aside the peasant constable. The Khan had been manacled and haled before a Justice of the Peace who had somehow had the discernment to recognize his high Iranian caste...