Word: jokers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tadjikistan now ranks with the seven other Independent Socialist Soviet Republics: 1) White Russia; 2) The Ukraine; 3) Armenia; 4) Uzbek; 5) Georgia; 6) Azerbaijan; 7) Turcoman. The joker is that all of these "independent republics" are federated with the Moscow Government of "Russia Proper," officially the R. S. F. S. R. or Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic. In theory the federal bond can be cast off by any Independent Republic at its sole discretion, but in practice such a step would bring Red Army divisions hot from Moscow...
...important bill, and showdowns must be constantly had under the Constitutional provision that both chambers shall sit, fight, and vote jointly when unable to come to an agreement as separate bodies. The bill which Prime Minister Hertzog was trying to jam through last week, contained an especially neat little joker which would have given the never-yet-enfranchised Negroes outside of Cape Province the right to elect three Senators. Of course these blackamoor-elected Senators would be Hertzog men, and would cut down the Smuts majority in the Senate. At the same time the Smuts blackamoor-elected following...
Thus assured, Joker Barnes grabbed the train for New York. Earnest scientists from all over North America were gathering for the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, under the thoughtful presidency of famed Dr. Henry Fairfield. Osborn (TIME, Dec. 31). Jolter Barnes fidgeted while they delivered their addresses. Then he got his chance...
...Debated and debated the House appropriations bill for the Treasury and Post Office departments; put in a joker for $270,000,000 to enforce prohibition at Senator Bruce's instigation; sent it to conference; adopted the conference report, taking out the joker and leaving $13,500,000 for prohibition, by vote of 38 to 35; sent the bill to the President. Said Senator Bruce: "The way to get rid of a bad law is to enforce...
From the standpoint of the world market there is none; but from the Russian internal market standpoint there is a cruel joker indeed. The facts, as confirmed from Moscow, are that ruthless Comrade Josef Stalin is deliberately robbing the Russian market of things that Russians want to buy, in order to sell those things abroad and reap foreign capital. Thus correspondents humorously described a recent paper famine" in Moscow, although the Soviet Monopoly was even then shipping paper to Persia in thumping shipload lots. The deal was put through by His Highness Timoor Tash, favorite Courtier of the Shah...