Word: irregulars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tide the Conference over this ugly crisis, Premier Edouard Herriot made one of those speeches which Frenchmen make so well. Keynote: "President Hoover's declaration was founded upon a noble idea." Bon mot: "In all languages the verb 'to disarm' seems to be an irregular verb...
...Brookhart defeat was the first of any sitting Senator in 1932. For six years the chunky, sharpshooting Irregular from Iowa had roared & ranted against Wall Street and Big Business. Republican conservatives in the Senate were pleased that his rasping voice would soon be stilled. His Progressive colleagues smelled a plot in the fact that his opposition was divided among five candidates. Senator Brookhart might, they hinted, even run as an independent this autumn...
...shriek she fled, he followed and Speaker Almassy had difficulty in quieting the excited Deputies. "To be sure we all recognize her and we all recognize him," said Speaker Almassy severely, "but the fact that an actress and a lawyer* have procured gallery tickets and used them for an irregular purpose is, gentlemen, of no great moment." Of maximum moment was a speech by Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen last week, his first since he resigned as Premier (TIME...
...cold, precise Chancellor Chamberlain. He "indicated" to correspondents what he called a "tentative refusal" of Lady Houston's proffered gift. It appeared that what the impulsive Dame had actually done was to withold her due income tax payment of $151,200, offering instead her gift of $756,000. Most irregular. Not cricket...
...arrived at by crediting to Britain's Exchequer for the fiscal year 1931-32 an entire quarter of paid-up income tax which ordinarily would have been credited in the fiscal year 1932-33. In France the current budget (made to "balance" by even more irregular bookkeeping) has been publicly declared by high French fiscal authorities to be almost $150,000,000 in the red, a bookkeeping irregularity of three billion francs. Reason: the French parliamentary election next month after which Frenchmen will have to lay upon themselves such vexatious taxes as the U. S. Congress was last week inventing...