Word: ironclads
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...feature of the kidnapping at Sian was that Kidnappee Chiang let Kidnapper Chang read his daily diary for the past year. Last week, in an abridged pamphlet form, the Dictator's diary was distributed to all Kuomintang delegates with ironclad injunctions to secrecy. It was supposed to prove to the Kuomintang, just as it was previously supposed to have proved to Kidnapper Chang, that the Kidnappee-Dictator never was a sell-out to Japan but in his daily thoughts and deeds is a true, brave Chinese. Dictator & Mme Chiang made their first joint world radio broadcast last week...
While "our southern brothers" are looting U. S. capitalists discreetly, a much greater number of Mexican landlords are notified from time to time by the Government that their estates have been taken from them (in exchange for what the Mexican Congress calls "ironclad, guaranteed bonds" which they must accept) and parceled out among the local peasants. A Mexican peasant, once established on such land, is by no means sure that he will not be visited by a landlord's lynching party who may cut off his ears and throw them in his face. Incidents of this kind have their...
...have profited extensively from their trust by voting themselves payments for expenses, compensation and otherwise; of committees which have distributed patronage to attorneys, depositaries, secretaries, agents and others with a liberal hand; and of committees which, if not actually injuring investors, have found it possible, thanks to the usual ironclad deposit agreement, to do nothing for bondholders while milking their securities...
...lacked a Bankhead Law to enforce obedience. Therefore it was definitely news last week when the Senate Agricultural Committee took steps to get immediate consideration of a supplementary farm bill nearly identical with one already passed by the House, a new scheme which may well become the prototype for ironclad laws for compulsory crop restriction...
...Army was sorry in a Japanese way about the assassinations. It was willing last week to offer "expiation" but on the ironclad understanding that the next Premier & Cabinet would not be men who would settle down in the same old grooves of what might be called Capitalism at home and Pacifism abroad. Amazingly enough, the "Ginger Group" of the fighting services is firmly convinced that Japan's actions in respect to China have been thus far so much more peaceful than they might have been as to be shockingly Pacifist...