Word: goates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exactly 10 o'clock members of the Grand Council of Fascism, followed by the Italian Cabinet, all in Fascist trimmings & trappings, marched into the great room. Goat-bearded Marshal Emilio de Bono, recalled last autumn from Ethiopia under a cloud, was there. Chin-tufted Libyan Governor Italo Balbo had flown over from Tripoli to attend the party. Near him sat his Fascist twin, Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, who had sped to Rome from London...
...House had already settled out of court for $3,600,000. The nine defendants resisted payment on the ground that they had not, as the Government contended, guaranteed the assets of their ailing fellow members in 1932 only to back out later. Apparently the main actor and most eligible goat in the controversy was smart, clean-cut Banker Charles Simonton McCain, onetime chairman of Chase National. As head of the Clearing House committee in 1932, he tried to save the Harriman bank for better times...
...thirds complete, the Bay Bridge is a serpentine skeleton of steel more than four miles long. Two suspended spans, each almost a mile long and bigger than Manhattan's famed George Washington Bridge across the Hudson, reach from San Francisco to Yerba Buena ("Goat") Island, about midway across the Bay. At Yerba Buena the roadway dives through a rocky hill for 540 ft. From Yerba Buena to Oakland for two and a half miles stretch one huge cantilever bridge, five smaller spans, then a long trestle. It was the centre of the 11,400-ft. cantilever which was joined...
...action against the powerful Right coalition of Catholic Leader Gil Robles without inviting civil war. He did, however, espouse the theory that the month's violence had been the work of Rightist agents provocateurs trying to make the victorious Left look bad. Then suddenly he discovered the perfect goat-Fascism...
...Longstreet served in the Mexican War. By the time the Civil War started he had settled down in the paymaster department. His experience and his massive self-confidence started him off in the Confederate Army as a brigadier-general. "Six feet tall, broad as a door, hairy as a goat," Longstreet was compact of ambition and stubbornness. The first summer's campaign showed that he was a first-rate defensive fighter but unaggressive and slow on the attack...