Word: ets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Significance in the last election the Press Lords" backed Loser David Lloyd George. Next they started a great national campaign for "Empire Free Trade" (TIME, Dec. 2, et seq.). Contributions to their campaign fund were handled by Treasurer Beaverbrook. Suddenly he vvithdrew from the "United Empire Party " returned all contributions to contributors (thus leaving Viscount Rotnermere holding an empty bag) and joined with Stanley Baldwin on the basis that "food taxes," a major feature of the Empire Free Trade" scheme, would be submitted to popular referendum by the Conservatives if returned to power (TIME, March 17). Tiring soon of slow...
...position which has been created by the intervention of the Vatican in the affairs of Malta" (TIME, June 2 et seq.), said Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald in the House of Commons last week, made it necessary for "His Majesty's Government, with considerable reluctance" to "sanction a temporary suspension of the [Maltese] constitution...
...Count Gaetano Manzoni, delivered last week to the French Foreign Office the Italian Government's official ''regrets" that Italian cadets and students recently shied stones at the French Consulate at Bari-a direct result of Signor Benito Mussolini's inflammatory speaking tour (TIME, May 26, et...
...British naval "barge"-and nothing is quite so spanking-smart and snobbish as a British naval barge-there landed from the Rodney that recently created peer, Baron Marks of Woolwich, an intimate friend of James Ramsay MacDonald who accompanied the Prime Minister to Washington (TIME, Oct. 7, et seq.) and an outstanding British consulting engineer, Senior Partner of Marks & Clerk, Engineers & Patent Experts, London...
Died. Leroy A. Manchester, chief counsel (with Newton Diehl Baker) for Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. in the projected Youngstown-Bethlehem steel merger ; despondent over litigation against the merger (TIME, March 24 et seq.) and the strain of negotiations; by his own hand; at Youngstown, Ohio. Court was declared adjourned until July 8 "for good and sufficient reasons." Declared David G. Jenkins, trial judge: "A valuable piece in the chess game [has been] removed from the board. So far as the law suit is concerned and cold as it may seem to say it, the contest must...