Word: francises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Co-operation was what no Great Power would give Ethiopia last week except in words (see p. 18). The blatant announcement last fortnight that Haile Selassie had conceded subsoil rights in half his empire to British Promoter Francis Rickett and his mysterious backers (TIME, Sept. 9) was universally called by...
Fat Chaps kissed his wife in England on Aug. 10, told her he was going to Ethiopia, and left her to take care of the children in his Amroth Castle, South Wales. This was once the country seat of Lord Kylsant, also a beefy John Bull, who went to jail...
Emperor Power of Trinity sat drawnfaced with his two pet dogs frisking about his feet as Fat Chaps & Lean Chaps concluded their work and Ethiopia's elaborate Seal of The Conquering Lion of Judah was affixed in token of His Majesty's assent. What had he done? It...
Smeared Britons. In Wall Street, aside from the fact that officials of numerous Standard Oil companies and subsidiaries denied any connection whatever with Francis M. Rickett of whom they said they had never heard, the U. S. fiscal reaction was: "This whole thing looks queer." With President Roosevelt just done...
Most lawyers thought the measure was unconstitutional in one or more respects. Utility executives talked darkly of "impairment" of assets, "confiscation" of property. On the New York Stock Exchange utility shares dropped one to four points. Calling the law "purely political," President James Francis Fogarty of conservative North American Co...