Word: fron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which, for the first time, would allow a case of this kind to be brought before a court of pardons. When the government ordered the army to postpone Michael's execution, the military governor of Athens resigned his post in protest. Almost overnight the news reached the northern fron tier. Through the thin cold air of the mountains the loudspeakers of General Markos jeered triumphantly at the government troops: "You see, there is one law for the rich, another for the poor. They executed others for the same thing-but not wealthy Mr. Chryssicopoulos...
...Arthur Vandenberg. For China, which the House had insisted on including among the aid recipients, the Taber bill provided not one cent. The State Department, said John Taber, had not "justified" China's need (see Foreign Relations). For good measure, tight-fisted Mr. Taber wanted a 53% cut (fron; $490 million to $230 million) in the funds requested by the Army to meet occupational expenses in Germany, Austria, Japan, the Ryukyus and Korea. There was little doubt that parts, at least, of all these cuts would eventually be restored.* But, against only desultory opposition on the floor, John Taber...
...elected by the people!" cried Prime Minister de Valera in a fighting speech. In the lobbies of the Dail, meanwhile, it was whispered that I. R. A. plans were for a combined insurrection and war to overthrow the Governments of both Eire and Northern Ireland, sweep away the intervening fron tier and proclaim the Irish Republic - a move which Great Britain would certainly answer by sending an expeditionary force to Ireland as she did to crush the "Easter Rebellion" of 1916. Thus what members of the Dail faced last week may well have been a mortal threat to the whole...