Word: incidental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valuable effect in preparing the French mind for gory Italian work later in Abyssinia. Then French Minister of Colonies Louis Rollin. who last month gave back to Tahitian girls their reputedly indecent pareus, announced that the massacring tribesmen were "nomads who have never been pacified," called Gobad an "occurrence incidental to colonial rule." To butchered young Administrator Bernard went, posthumously, by Premier Flandin's order, the tiny rosette of the Legion of Honor...
Strangely both Nanking and Tokyo treated this latest incident with icy calm. After one day of flaming headlines, the Tokyo Press limited all descriptions of the fighting in Chahar to the barest of brief dispatches. Nanking, instead of screaming in the customary Chinese manner about the Rape of Chahar, sent...
Seven firms, including Eastman, Dillon & Co. and Lehman Bros., were "admonished" although the Exchange considered the circumstances in their cases "mitigating and understandable." Six others, including Hayden, Stone & Co., reputed to be one of the two biggest shorts involved, were "censured" for failing to cooperate with the Exchange in reaching...
The incident was referred for settlement to two commissioners of arbitration appointed under the U. S.-British liquor treaty of 1924. One was precise, deliberate Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter of the U. S. Supreme Court. The other was the Canadian Supreme Court's bland, blue-eyed, brilliant Justice...
In Geneva agitated agents of Dictator Mussolini hastily withdrew from circulation last week an Italian map on which it appeared that Power of Trinity I was correct when he protested to the League that the towns in which Italian and Abyssinian troops recently clashed were on Abyssinian soil (TIME, Dec...