Word: gore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must choose either horn of the dilemma, Communism or Fascism. To none could the choice have been more odious than to the founders of the Spanish Republic, the opponents of monarchial government, and the writers of the liberal constitution. For these men knew that either horn was going to gore them-and the Spanish people-very badly...
...English countryside near London but insisting that a most warlike Ethiopian Government is on the rampage in "Western Ethiopia" against the conquering Italians, has created a keen news market for dispatches about this invisible "Government." Last week U. S. newsorgans began to carry stories dated overnight from "Gore, Western Ethiopia." They appeared to have originated by radio from Gore, referred to "the provisional Government here," declared that quantities of ammunition captured from Italians have passed through Gore in recent weeks, and named as the Gore Government's military leader Ras Imru, first cousin of Emperor Haile Selassie...
...Imru was said to have raised an army of 60,000, to have spurred Ethiopian patriotism with tidings that the Italians had executed Ethiopian Coptic Bishop Petros. Just as "Gore, Western Ethiopia," was becoming an accepted date line, however, it was discovered to be a fake. Cunning correspondents in Egypt had rightly guessed that U. S. editors would prefer dispatches from the seat of the "Gore Government" to the mess of rumors about it which today is all they can genuinely...
...after Governor Landon pledged himself in his acceptance speech to purge relief of politics (see p. 9), acting WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams dismissed seven Oklahoma WPA officials for exerting political pressure on relief workers in the recent Democratic primary, in which anti-New Dealer Senator Thomas P. Gore met defeat (TIME, July 20). Administrator Williams then trumpeted: "I defy anyone to show me where anyone on relief has been politically coerced. . . . We have received instructions from the President to keep this thing out of politics and we're going...
...candidates who trounced Senator Gore last week had outdone themselves in promising handouts from the public funds. The vision of $200 per month for every oldster helped the Townsendite candidate, Corner Smith, vice president of Old Age Revolving Pensions, Inc., to finish a strong third. As No. 2, Governor Ernest Whitworth Marland won the right to enter a runoff primary July 28 by singing the praises of Franklin Roosevelt, pointing to his own State's social security amendment. Even so, he ran well behind winning Representative Josh Lee, 44, whose New Deal-plus platform included "a farm for every...