Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because the most important part, the "administrative statute," describing how and by whom the law was to be enforced, was not published. The statute as published merely gave general promises of: 1) recognition and protection of nationality according to the subjects' mother tongue; 2) the principle of proportioning the allotment of State jobs, legislative representation and the expenditure of State funds to each nationality according to its numbers; 3) self-administration of the educational system by the nationalities...
...House of Commons last week adjourned to November 1, giving the Chamberlain Cabinet a general vote of confidence after a speech in which the Prime Minister explained his novel move for solving the Czechoslovak Question (see p. 15). The session closed with a fiery field day of spouted indignation because ships of the Royal Navy continue to stand by while British freighters are bombed in the ports of Leftist Spain. No fervent orator, however, went so far as to demand the alternative: that Spanish Rightist bombers be fired upon by Britons. As members sped to their homes, the Spanish...
...first time in Portugal's history its ruler last week visited her overseas empire. After calls at the tiny, off-Africa islands of Principe and Sao Tome, a steamer carrying Portuguese President General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona steamed into the harbor of Loanda, largest city in Portugal's West African colony of Angola. But to the population of Angola the big news last week was not the official visit but the more important fact that in Lisbon tight-fisted Premier and Finance Minister Dr. Antonio Oliveira Salazar had finally loosened up and granted the neglected colony...
...first time made exports exceed her imports. The underprivileged population continued, however, to live in hovels, to scrabble for a living with primitive implements. Discontent was widespread. Angolans appealed for funds from home. Finance Minister Salazar, resolute for balanced budgets, refused to listen. When Governor-designate of Angola, General Joao d'Almeida, three months ago asked for relief funds, Premier Salazar instead sent him into exile...
...quiet before dawn last week, a band of 400 dandelion-eating, political-minded peasants struck at the two-year rule of Greek Dictator General John Metaxas. They marched into the stony streets of Canea, ancient seaport and capital of Crete. At their head stepped former Minister of National Economy in the Athens Government, young Aristomenis Mitsotakis, nephew of Venizelos, and ex-Mayor Mountakis of Canea...