Word: facto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the U. S. centre of political gravity shifted from Washington to Albany with the ectoplasmic emergence of President-elect Roosevelt as the nation's new leader. De jure he was still Governor of New York with a hands-off policy on National Affairs. De facto he was the supreme party captain to whom Democrats in & out of the Federal capital looked for orders...
Hawk-nosed Lord Wellington used to figure the presence of Napoleon on a battlefield as worth 40,000 men to the French. Observers agreed last week that the presence of white-headed General Hans Kundt, onetime German imperial staff officer and de facto dictator of Bolivia, on the jungle battlefront of the Gran Chaco was worth at least 5,000 men to Bolivia. Following the hysterical, flower-strewn welcome to him in La Paz three weeks ago, a huge airplane was seen circling over the battlefield last week. Open-mouthed Bolivianos in their steaming trenches told each other that...
Debts & Arms. One thing upon which U. S. opinion of every shade seemed undivided was this: that quite as connected de facto as Debts and Reparations are Debts and Disarmament. This connection Europe continued to deny. Last month after his White House conference with Governor Roosevelt, who rejected War Debt responsibility as "not his baby," President Hoover declared...
...South Carolina the issue was: "Shall Cole Blease stay home?" The renomination of Ellison DuRant ("Ipso Facto") Smith, Senator for 24 years, was an emphatic YES. Beaten twice straight for the Senate, blatant and erratic Coleman Livingston Blease was considered to have reached the end of his political career...
...Prince Svasti, His Highness can be serious-as befits the father-in-law of the King. In grim earnest last week Prince Svasti discussed the situation facing Siam since diminutive King Prajadhipok staved off a revolution by abdicating as an "absolute sovereign," and, as "constitutional monarch," submitted to de facto rule of Siam by a group of Army officers...