Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio Northern University. She moved to West Virginia, entered politics as a feminist. She headed the State's Republican Executive Committee, was chosen West Virginia's Republican National Committeewoman. Last winter she ably marshaled all Dry witnesses for the House Judiciary Committee's investigation of Prohibition (TIME, March 17, et seq.). She was credited with having enough influence to get her husband, Ellis A. Yost, a good job with the Federal Radio Commission. Her elevation in the Republican National Committee plainly foreshadowed a party effort to hold in line all the women who had voted for Herbert Hoover...
...election for the third time against Jonathan McMillan Davis, onetime (1923-25) Democratic Governor. Republican Senator Henry Justin Allen, good Hoover friend, appointed last year by Governor Clyde Martin Reed to the Senate seat vacated by Vice President Curtis, won the senatorial nomination over Representative William Henry Sproul et al for the short term...
Pursuant to instructions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South's, general conference at Dallas last spring (TIME, May 26, et seq.), Bishop Edwin DuBose Mouzon of Charlotte, N. C. sailed into Rio de Janeiro's mountain-shadowed harbor last week. A motor procession carried him and his party to a conference with important Brazilian Methodists. They at once began to write a constitution for a Methodist Church of Brazil. Just arrived from Europe with his new wife and meeting them was Bishop James Cannon Jr., the Southern Methodists' missionary bishop of Brazil, as well as chairman...
...Briton who rejoiced secretly at the Canadian victory of Conservative Bennett was Conservative Stanley Baldwin. He has been fighting tooth & nail to keep control of his party from the British "Press Lords" Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere with their pet policy of Empire free trade (TIME, Dec. 2 et seq). Stanley Baldwin, personally a free trader, was grudgingly forced to accept Empire free trade when popular opinion seemed to demand it. Australia's mountainous tariff and absolute embargoes, conservative Canada's high tariff policy, gave Stanley Baldwin one more chance to declare his independence of the Press Lords...
Last year the Arabs made the Wall a prime factor in their war upon Zionism. As Jews went to their weeping places, rowdy Arab boys molested them. Riots ensued which spread throughout Palestine. About 100 Jews were killed, a few Arabs (TIME, Aug. 26, et...