Word: fiat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This bill, already passed by the House of Representatives, went to the Senate backed by the fiat of Australia's most potent Labor boss, Edward Granville Theodore, Treasurer of the Commonwealth...
...personal fiat, King Carol II dismissed last week Governor Burileanu of the National Bank of Rumania...
...Africa last week glided 14 Savoia-Marchetti flying boats. Led by Italy's 34-year-old air minister, General Italo Balbo, they had flown in four stages from Orbetello, near Rome. Now mechanics swarmed over the ships-great twin-hulled craft, each with two 500-h. p. Fiat engines-preparing twelve of them for a single flight of 1,860 mi. to Natal, Brazil. In formation of four triads, each designated by a wing-color (red, black, green, white) and each plane manned by a crew of four, the fleet was to take off with the full moon...
...Charleston died, the Dancing Masters have waned in importance. Each year they have continued to give ex cathedra notice of what the U. S. shall dance, but more and more they follow and do not lead. For the Dancing Masters well know now that it is not their fiat that calls the turn in U. S. dancesteps, but such creations as Gilda Gray's Shimmy, Bill Robinson's tapping, George White's Black Bottom, Schwab & Mandel's Varsity Drag, such agencies as Tin-Pan Alley...
...press and marital activities have drawn most venom from churchgoing Woodstock merchants. He is editor of the Woodstock bulletin, a journal of Woodstock's art votaries,? therefore chief spokesman and defender of the colonists against "the hypocritical piety of Christians." When, at the 1929 Maverick an anonymous fiat from a "Committee of Fifty" warned that offenders against Woodstock's rustic peace would be summarily dealt with by the Law, Editor Clough did some quiet investigating. Raucously in the next bulletin he exposed the "Committee of Fifty" as being only Four, gleefully he named names...