Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Learned with visible relief that James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, onetime engine cleaner who as Lord Privy Seal and Minister of Employment has conspicuously failed to solve the unemployment problem (TIME, June 17, 1929, et seq.), had resigned. After appointing him Minister of Dominions,* last week, the Prime Minister penned these graceful words for the Laborite Daily Herald: "The grave question of unemployment . . . has suddenly increased to intensity all the world over, owing to causes beyond the control of this, or, indeed, of any single nation. The problem is different in kind and degree from that which faced us [the Cabinet...
...night. Since their candidate had ditched them, the only possible future King for Hungary would seem to be "Little Otto." If and when proclaimed he may be expected to take vengeance on Julius Gömbös et al., not to mention Isabella. For comfort the fearful gathering looked to Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen, Prime Minister, who is said to have enlisted Signor Benito Mussolini's support for a Hungarian restoration?the new King to marry an Italian princess (TIME, June 2). Although recently rumored a supporter of Otto, Count Bethlen was formerly supposed to be an Albrechtist...
...peace is menaced by Benito Mussolini, at least, like an honest rattlesnake, he jangles his sword (TIME, May 26, et seq.). Stalin acts without warning. At his sudden fiat, Trotsky (a Communist with a greater name than Stalin's own) was bundled out of Moscow on a few hours notice, exiled to Turkestan for a year, then banished (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). In decisions of state Stalin is equally abrupt. One (day he orders wholesale "liquidation" (extermination) of the kulak or "rich peasant" class, and the grim campaign begins (TIME, Jan. 13, et seq.). A week, six months...
...Duce when performing the sedentary brain work of statecraft keeps to a scant, frugal, almost womanish diet. His sudden excess of appetite, his unwonted he-man meals, are the result of exercise, both muscular and vocal, on his recent whirlwind speechmaking swing around northern Italy (TIME, May 26, et...
...attained its industrial objectives, has fallen somewhat short in persuading the stubborn Russian peasant to plant as much seed as the Government wishes, to sell it at the price fixed by the Government, and to espouse with proper enthusiasm the Government's program of "collective farms" (TIME. Oct. 21, et seq.). Nevertheless 10,530,000 acres are now under collective cultivation...