Word: fiats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer to "Where Do Famous Authors Do Their Writing?" has been made by responses varying from "Under an apple tree" to "On a pad hung over the kitchen sink." Cosmo Bamilton, whose new novel. "The Pleasure House," has just been published by Putnam's, admits bravely to a large fiat in a fine old Georgian house in "Pleadilly, London...
...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...
...which tell us so much about your wonderful old palaces and historical monuments, do not inform us with equal care concerning these very significant economic accomplishments of recent years. I hope, however, that the admission to the New York Stock Exchange of Italian securities like Pirelli, Montecatini, Italian Edison, Fiat, Agriatica, Meridionale and others, will assist in giving our people a better balanced conception of modern Italy, particularly in respect to its vigorous economic development...