Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a hard political nut, a 27,000-word document wherein slick little James John ("Jimmy") Walker hotly defended his right to remain Mayor of New York. Replying to the ouster charges filed last June by Counsel Samuel Seabury of the legislative committee investigating Tammany corruption (TIME, June 13 et ante), Mayor Walker opened his defense with an attack. He charged that Republicans had instigated the inquiry "to divert public attention from the dreadful condition of affairs throughout the nation." He accused Mr. Seabury of "malice, slander, rancorous ill-will," of conducting a "man-hunt...
...leader of Great Britain's Labor Party, received replies last week to his fervent plea that the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other religious leaders should intervene to stop the "tariff war" now raging between the Mother Country and the Irish Free State (TIME, July 25 et...
...order thus to exalt the Japanese official whose official responsibility was stained with the blood of Premier Inukai, it was necessary to oust last week the ''Conqueror of Manchuria," taciturn Gen eral Shigeru Honjo (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.). Orders are orders. Conqueror Honjo packed up on short notice and silently quit Mukden from which he has directed the Japanese occupation of Manchoukuo...
Briefly, the Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee took the stand which President Hoover tried to take with former Premier Pierre Laval of France (TIME, Nov. 2 et seq.). namely that the U. S. should bargain with Europe, offering cancellation in return for all-around reduction of armaments and numerous other concessions for the general good of the world. M. Laval soon showed Mr. Hoover how unwilling Europe is to make any such bargain, preferring that the U. S. simply cancel. Cried Senator Borah...
...neither crippled nor blind, nor has he a harelip. His professional name dates back to his childhood on a Maryland plantation. A bird house in the backyard was occupied by a colony of martins, identified by his mother in her story telling as John, Joan, Robin, Alice (et al.) Martin...