Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minute but highly strategic triangle of French territory commanding the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, thus giving Italy a potential war base in this bottleneck between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden...
...calculus problems and long corresponded in Greek with the late Lord Haldane. Years passed. Justice Duff was upped to Chief Justice of Canada. Justice Van Devanter saw burgeon in the U. S. a New Deal. Prohibition passed and the I'm Alone, rotting at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, was forgotten by all save the aging commissioners...
...correspondents spent a frantic evening cabling summaries. In sum France and Italy agreed: 1) that Italy will receive some 58,000 sq. mi. of French African territory, also a share in the French-controlled strategic railway which dominates Abyssinia, and an outlet providing Italy with a port on the Gulf of Aden; 2) that Italy will aid France toward bringing Germany to a reasonable stabilization of her armaments and in inducing the Fatherland to return to the League; 3) that Austrian independence shall be guaranteed by a general pact of the Danubian States, plus Italy and France, with Britain invited...
Upon his appointment as Director of the Budget in February, 1933 he became a leading figure in the new deal. Credit for the Economy Bill and the cuts in bonus payments has been attributed to him. As the succeeding months brought tremendous increases in government expenditures, however, the gulf between the beliefs of Roosevelt and his close adviser was uncovered...
...Allred fulfilled his prophecy. In 1932 he was reelected. His career as Attorney General made news in Texas. For years Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. had succeeded in avoiding all efforts to raise its taxes because the county commissioners who assessed its property obligingly postponed hearings whenever the Attorney General came to protest, held the hearings when no protester was at hand. Night be fore a scheduled hearing, Allred drove to the neighborhood of the county seat, slept in his car, drove into town just as the hear ing opened in the morning, made himself heard...