Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great crowds gathered in streets of San Juan, of Rio Piedras, of many a village and hamlet throughout Puerto Rico last week. They had but one purpose: to stop all motor traffic. They scattered tacks, nails, scraps of iron, pieces of glass over the pavements. Automobiles that did not disappear prudently into driveways were attacked by gangs who drove nails into their tires, smashed their windshields with bricks. Thus, from end to end of their island, Puerto Ricans struck against the high price of gasoline...
...member of the Liberal Party, oldtime machine of the famed Bratianu family and long bitterly opposed to the restoration of King Carol. Lately he was won over to the King's side and set valiantly to work suppressing anti-Semitism and a terrorist organization known as the Iron Guard. Beyond question it was the Iron Guard that killed him. Martial law was declared throughout the country; all army leaves were canceled; an iron-clad censorship was clapped on the Press. Detectives went out in squads, picking up every known member of the Iron Guard...
...business man who makes his plans in the face of such a welter of uncertainties has an iron nerve, indeed. And the 440-yard dash while sprints will be entrusted to Edwin E. Calvin '35. Climaxing his season by winning three first places against Yale, Robert S. Playfair '36, will be entered in the mile and 1000-yard run. Thomas F. Locke '35, Anthony A. Bliss '36, and John White '34 ar also expected to show up well
...fine gesture toward the U. S. holders of $2,000,000,000 of defaulted foreign bonds, Congress last spring voted $75,000 to establish a Government protective committee. Secretary of State Hull, who did not relish the U. S. Government in the official role of an iron-fisted dunner, persuaded President Roosevelt to sidestep this provision of the Securities Act by sponsoring a potent, but purely private, protective agency (TIME, Oct. 30). Last week the Foreign Bondholders' Protective Council completed its organization, prepared to swing into action...
...from the Post, on the top of the Denver County Court House, has stood for the last 50 years a gilded iron statue of Justice, with traditional sword and scales. Last fortnight, when workmen started to raze the Courthouse to make room for a park, the Denver Post ran a picture of the statue being lowered to the ground, captioned "Justice expelled from her habitation of half a century...