Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrian people have been prevented for six years by their constitution from having a nationwide election. This has been because Austria's firm Catholic leaders think, although they may be wrong, that at the polls there would be rather better than a bare majority of votes for installing an Austrian Nazi Cabinet which in turn would merge Austria with Germany. Given last week this situation of pent-up Austrian politics, given Herr Hitler's need of a spectacular success to cap his crackdown on the German Army fortnight ago, and given Herr von Ribbentrop's reputation...
...admit the hand of a thief (and Churchman Varian declares there are plenty of thieves). Lately Ammidon & Co., which markets collection plates and hence has nothing to lose, began advertising alms bags in the church press. But Ammidon & Co.'s crusade has been fruitless. To date the firm has sold two pairs of bags, both to a church in the tropics which had experienced a wave of alms thefts...
...murder of a tradition which in the course of two centuries has become a trait, a characteristic of the American mind. It is the murder of that feeling of responsibility that accompanies unqualified freedom. It is the murder of that firm conviction that freedom of the press is a necessity. For a long time now, Americans have held that conviction, and they have never had cause to doubt it. At the same time, the obligations implicit in this mandate have steadily advanced the American press in accuracy and responsibility. Often, to be sure, it has damaged the country's reputation...
...that Chinese statesmen of the Kuomintang or National People's Party who set up the Government over ten years ago (TIME, May 2, 1927, et ante) "now fear the common people of China more than they do the Japanese, and would compromise with Japan . . . but the Communists are firm for resistance." A censored Hankow dispatch quoted Kuomintang Central Political Council Chairman Wang Ching-wei as announcing: "In the event that the Communist Party at any time revives the Class Struggle, there will be danger of a break with the Kuomintang...
...would vex many solid Netherlanders should they ever find themselves with a Queen having such a name as Beatrix, and Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina was understood to have made last week this firm stipulation: should Princess Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard ever come to the throne it will be as "Queen Wilhelmina...