Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London the impression that all they knew and all they are likely to find out is what they had read in the papers while U. S. Senators were sending agents snooping through munitioneers' files, forcing witnesses to testify under oath and threatening contempt proceedings (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934 et...
...Prepared as an aftermath of the de Clifford manslaughter case (TIME, Dec. 16 et seq.) to abolish the right of an accused lord to trial by his peers. Reason: taxpayers object to forking up the $50,000 such trials can cost. Introducing a motion to brand the right of a peer to trial by the House of Lords as "archaic," Bachelor Viscount Sankey, recently Lord Chancellor, last week declared...
...dozen Paris mobs, enraged by indications of Government complicity in the Stavisky scandals, were moved to rioting which was cut short by the order of Minister of the Interior Eugène Frot. When rifle fire ceased, 24 corpses lay in the streets of Paris (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934, et seq.). Last week, on the eve of the explosive anniversary, sly, black-bearded Eugène Frot, who was once doused with a bucket of slaughterhouse blood, made bold to appear as a practicing lawyer in the Paris Palais de Justice...
...establishing the University of Chicago's famed New Plan (TIME, Dec. 1, 1930 et seq.) prodigious President Robert Maynard Hutchins left the gates wide open to prodigies inclined to step up the academic pace. Smart students may receive their degrees as soon as they are able to pass examinations...
Amid the political storms which have lashed the University of Oregon (TIME, Sept. 26, 1932 et seq.), a lean, -square-jawed educator named Clarence Valentine Boyer bobbed to the top as acting president in January 1934, became full president three months later...