Word: forehandedness
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Forehanded Niceto Alcala Zamora had already closed his Presidential Palace desk, gone home where he refused to receive the commission sent to tell him the bad news. Said he: "I am nobody's servant." Automatically elevated to the Provisional Presidency was another Left Republican, Diego Martinez-Barrios, onetime linotype...
In the deep fastness of Eastern Asia, along nebulous frontiers supposed to divide Soviet power from the forces of Empire, battle was joined as a thousand Mongol rifles cracked and light Japanese tanks whirled into action. The fighting last week came as a grim climax. Preludes have been more than...
Long ago Chiang pondered that prob-lem and selected the province of Szechwan. backed right against the Tibetan highlands and 125 miles from British Burma. Szechwan, biggest province in China proper, has a population (76,000,000) bigger than the white population of the British Empire. It is more or...
Since the adoption of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution, the President of the U. S. is assured of at least one Christmas gift: a headache. The 20th Amendment set the annual opening of Congress on Jan. 3. and unless a President is more forehanded with his work than Franklin...
Meeting in agitation last week, Britain's Cabinet considered their position in view of the fact that Continental air forces have long been deemed able to bomb Britain's Home Fleet handily at its present bases in the North Sea and the English Channel. Admiralty experts advised His Majesty's...