Word: handiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lever. Handiest card the French and British had in dealing with the Loyalists was the presence in Paris of Manuel Azaña, President of the Spanish Republic. Loyalist decrees, to be legal, must be signed by the President. The French have served notice that Don Manuel cannot function as President-i.e., cannot sign decrees-on French soil. Moreover, French and British ambassadors to Spain are accredited to the President of the Republic rather than to the Republic itself. With the President in France, Britain and France could easily maintain that Loyalist Spain had ceased to exist...
Sudeten Pains. The third and best reason for the President's optimism is his belief that he can patch up his troublesome minority demands, particularly of the Sudetens, and thus spike Hitler's handiest excuse for an invasion. Father Andreas Hlinka, leader of a Slovak ecclesiastical party, has demanded autonomy for his racial group, but his party polled less votes than in previous years in the recent municipal elections. Other minority protests pull even less weight. But one Czechoslovakian minority problem the world will not forget in a hurry is that of the Sudetens...
...down old buildings to make room for a 20-story hospital, the only State institution where Louisiana citizens may get all types of free medical care. While reconstruction progressed, patients had to be bedded in any available shelter. For Charity's Negroes, the old Negro Pythian Temple proved handiest...
...them make at least two out of every three cans opened. American Can is more than twice as large as Continental Can but both have waxed rich on the theory of taking an infinitesimal profit on each can and then multiplying it by billions. The estimated profit on the handiest container developed since the egg is 2/10...
...handiest places to put dollars safe away from Inflation, Revolution or the tribulations of the New Deal is in International Nickel, a Canadian corporation with most of its properties in Canada and a practical monopoly on the world's nickel supply. Long a favorite with excitable investors, Nickel is officered by U. S. citizens, its shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange and an investment entails no confusion over foreign exchange or incomprehensible balance sheets...