Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nobles' Club. The world's eyes were on October Hall last week when six British engineers-together with twelve Russian defendants, in which neither Soviet nor world Press took much interest-went on trial for their lives charged with espionage and sabotage (TIME, March 27 et seq.). If these men were found innocent millions of Russians might think the Soviet was afraid to mete out the same justice to the subjects of Imperial Britain as it does to its own Comrades. If they were found guilty, King George V had just put his signature to a bill empowering...
...then the big, boisterous States of the Australian Commonwealth think for themselves. Two years ago New South Wales tried to repudiate the interest on its State debt (TIME, April 6, 1931 et seq.). The Crown-appointed Governor finally forced the Premier, tall, square-jawed John Thomas Lang, out of office (TIME, May 23). Last week the Commonwealth's biggest and rawest state, Western Australia, voted to secede from the Commonwealth...
...Norway's little-known Arctic Council of peppery explorers warned Norway that Danes were planning to explore East Greenland, secure it for Denmark (TIME, June 8, 1931 et seq.). Acting quickly, Norway sent half a dozen men to plant the Norwegian flag among the sad-eyed Eskimos and puffins on a 350-mile strip of the eastern coast which they named Eric the Red Land. A year later another Norwegian expedition "seized"' more of East Greenland...
...civil indictment and Methodist church trial of Rev. G. Lemuel Conway of Muncie, Ind. on a charge of attempting to rape an 18-year-old parishioner named Helen Huffman (TIME. Feb. 6, et seq.): acquittal in a circuit court jury trial. Ten farmers, a teacher and a salesman heard testimony by Miss Huffman, Mrs. Conway, a neighbor, and a woman who told how Miss Huffman had twice before accused men of attacking her. Mr. Conway appealed to his church on the strength of his civil acquittal, but the original church sentence-suspension from his pulpit for one year-was upheld...
When the Oxford Union got into the newspapers by voting against bearing arms in war (TIME, Feb. 27 et seg.), it was to be expected that some U. S. universities would follow suit. Last week the Brown University Herald front-paged an editorial condemning war. announced a campaign to get pledges against bearing arms except in case of invasion of the U. S. The Columbia Spectator began a poll on pacifism. Northwestern University went even further in imitating Oxford. The local chapter of the League of Industrial Democracy held a debate, presented a resolution which was adopted...