Word: foes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happens, the National Peasant Party, Premier Goga's doughtiest foe, has spent 20 years teaching Rumanian peasants, who are mostly illiterate, to recognize and vote the ticket headed on the ballot by the Peasant Party symbol, a circle. Last week, on the advice of ingenious Premier Goga, King Carol decreed this circle and all other Rumanian party symbols abolished. He announced that the first party to apply would be given a ballot symbol of one black dot, the next two dots, and so on up to 28 dots (there are 28 Rumanian parties). It was next discovered that...
...immediately procured a restraining order from the State Supreme Court preserving the status quo until this week. Simultaneously Sheriff William J. Hamilton Jr., Mayor Wilson's bitterest political foe, ostentatiously mobilized 160 pudgy deputies "to enforce the orders of the courts." The Civil Service Commission in the meantime opened an investigation of Sam Wilson's action in ordering police to circulate 7,000 "Stop the Gas Steal" petitions, each headed by his signature. Snorted Civil Service Commission Chairman Thaddeus M. Daly: "There are three courses this commission may take . . . ask the council to take appropriate action...
Censorship has not been a major problem in this war. The great bulk of the reporting has been done behind China's lines and the Chinese do not wish to minimize their foe's might. Coverage of this war has other quixotic aspects. Reporters who are in a Chinese city one day may find it belongs to Japan the next. In Shanghai correspondents and cameramen could sleep comfortably in clean hotel beds, decide each morning which army they wanted to cover that day. But such convenience bred its carelessness and, for example, all United Press...
There is one thing on which we agree: With foe or with friend We will fight...
...newly formed to promote the Catholic point of view in C. I. O. and A. F. of L. unions, quietly opened a free experimental school for workers in Fordham University's Woolworth Building quarters. To the press rushed Rev. Ignatius Wiley Cox, Fordham professor of ethics and loud foe of birth control and the press, to announce that Fordham was starting "the first attempt to interpret workers' problems by other than Marxian theories." Text for the courses, in which 100 unionists had enrolled last week, will be the encyclicals on labor by Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius...