Word: iii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heels of the distillers' code came the importers' marketing agreement. Article III of this agreement provided for minimum import quotas based on the peak years 1910-14, in which the U. S. bought overseas some 4,000,000 gal. of spirits, some 7,000,000 gal. of wine yearly. No restrictions were placed on the number of U. S. importing firms, but the total business was to be distributed by FACA according to "legitimate trade needs" of individual houses...
...Rome he flipped through the Papal daily Osservatore Romano which headlined CANNIBALISM IN RUSSIA and asserted the Russian people's "disillusionment and utter disinclination to work under the Communist regime." In Rome the roly-poly Red was received in private audience by His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele III and held a series of conferences with Premier Mussolini at which they secretly discussed disarmament and the Japanese trade menace before Comrade Litvinoff entrained for Moscowr...
...boys die under the smothering hands. Sir James Tyrrell, a discontented gentleman in charge of the job, hastens to report to his employer, Richard Duke of Gloucester, uncle of the boys. Gloucester, a crafty, ruthless, sharp-featured scoundrel who drags a foot is already calling himself King Richard III...
...Bloody Richard III dies on Bosworth Field crying: "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" Henry Tudor, distant cousin of the last Lancastrian, King Henry VI, returns from exile, wins on Bosworth Field and marries Elizabeth, sister of the murdered York princes. Thus Henry Tudor merges the Houses of York and Lancaster, ends the Wars of the Roses, establishes his own House of Tudor. Many of his subjects believe that the York princes are still alive, that they somehow escaped from Richard Ill's confinement. But they do not reappear on the English scene. A century later...
...structure and chemistry of the bones proved that when they were murdered Edward was very close to 12 years 9 months, Richard very close to 9 years 10 months. That meant that they had died in 1483, proved conclusively that their murderer was their York uncle Richard III, not, as some modern theorists have suggested, their sister's Tudor husband Henry...