Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prison. Communists rioted in Bilbao. In San Sebastian, Republicans tried to lynch several Monarchists. In Barcelona, Archduke Carlos of Habsburg-Bourbon was arrested on suspicion. After a night of serene sleep General Sanjurjo set out for El Dueso Prison in Santander Province to begin a term which few Spaniards expect him to finish...
...combination of the last three, crushed the first wing, left it bleeding and broken. The Brown Derby is still licking its wounds in sullen silence. John Jacob Raskob, who kept the party alive through four lean years, has been unceremoniously exiled. Regardless of Mayor Walker's fate, Tammany can expect nothing from a President Roosevelt. Good Democrats like Bernard Mannes Baruch have been ignored. They feel that the presidential nominee has taken from them without so much as a "thank you" the high-powered political machine which they formed, fixed and financed. He, they think, is a wobbly and uncertain...
...great imponderable of tourist trade, estimated at $50,000,000 in a normal year. Last year U. S. exports to Canada climbed to $1,100,000,000. Mr. Bennett promises to divert some 50 to 100 millions of this from the U. S. to Britain. The U. S. may expect to lose some of its $81,000,000 trade in iron & iron products. $30,000,000 in coal, $20,000,000 in chemicals, $12,000,000 in electrical apparatus, $3,000,000 in glass & glassware. That some of these products were not mentioned in the published summaries was taken...
Special Session. Correspondents expect that it will be a very special session of the Diet indeed. Reports persisted that to offset the coming publication of the League report on Manchuria, which it is generally expected will hold Japan guilty of aggression in Manchuria, Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida will echo an idea which Japanese say was tossed off by the late great Theodore Roosevelt in 1905 in one of his imperialistic moments: a Japanese expanded Monroe Doctrine, by which Japan will announce herself the guardian and protector of new Asiatic nations during their adolescence...
...later Helen Jacobs took the step penultimate to what she hoped would be her first U. S. championship by beating another British semifinalist, Mrs. Elsie Goldsack Pittman, 6-2, 6-3. Either way the Babcock-Jacobs match turned out it was a much more dramatic final than anyone had expected. The biggest gallery of the week-2,500-knew that it might turn out to be the triumph that Helen Jacobs has been waiting and playing for ever since she won the girls' championship in 1924 and 1925, a triumph long delayed for her by the coincidence...