Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill in question was the 104-page compromise measure patched together by a twelve-man conference committee out of the House and Senate Farm Bills passed during the special session (TIME, Dec. 20, et seq.). Since it had already been approved by the House, 263-10-135, it needed only the approval of the Senate and the signature of Franklin Roosevelt to make it the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 and the law of the land. This week, after three days of debate divided between assertions by various Senators .that they did not understand what they were voting...
...Rightist victories in the Teruel sector (TIME, Feb. 14) "completely eliminated the spearhead" which Leftist forces previously drove in north of Teruel. Rightist officials said their troops had recaptured an area twice as great as that taken from them by the Leftist offensive which took Teruel (TIME, Jan. 17, et ante), but the Rightists last week had not recaptured Teruel itself...
...Fatherland and a martyr of the Church. If he wins acquittal it will be by the 'same indomitable, single-handed fighting methods that caused the German Supreme Court to acquit the famed Bulgarian Communist Georgi Dimitroff of complicity in the Reichstag fire (TIME, March 6, 1933, et seq.), send him to Moscow where he was acclaimed and made by Dictator Stalin the head of the Communist International...
...Balkans a monarch must often act with vigor if he expects to stay King, and at Bucharest last week Carol von Hohenzollern suddenly made himself as much a Dictator as was his brother-in-law, the late King Alexander of Yugoslavia, assassinated at Marseille (TIME. Oct. 15, 1934, et seq.). Carol II has long hankered after the absolutism of his Hohenzollern kinsman Wilhelm II. Last week's crisis broke after Premier Octavian Goga received two heavy blows: 1) his entire slate of anti-Semitic decrees was declared unconstitutional; and 2) a brawl in which Goga's own political...
...last week, when flies in de Basil's soup seemed thickest, handsome Prince Serge Obolensky (onetime Diaghilev supporter) and his cohorts of Manhattan socialites (Aldrich. Biddle. Vanderbilt et al.) and White Russians thundered to the rescue. To the Obolensky-de Basil standard rallied white-haired Choreographer Michel Fokine, several of whose past creations (Don Juan, Les Eléments, L'Epreuve d' Amour) already studded the proposed repertory of the Massine-World-Art company. Besides the exclusive future services of Choreographer Fokine, the Obolensky-de Basil company acquires the bulk of the present repertory costumes and scenery...