Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British national defense tax (TIME, June 28), a five-year super tax on business organizations, is expected to yield $100,000,000. The Chancellor will borrow $450,000,000.† Income-tax yield, Sir John Simon hopefully announced, is now running 13% above last year in the United Kingdom, but his White Paper is frank in showing that the Chancellor has not planned as yet where he will get some $275,000,000 of the $1,758,750,000 he is sure Mother Britain is going to spend on Safety First...
...think he is not for the League of Nations (see p. 17), then explained that Britain is "spending till it hurts" to build up "almost terrifying power." This "will not be used for aggression" he promised, will have "a sobering effect on world public opinion." Until the United Kingdom is secure, the Dominions, he hinted, could fend for themselves, be rescued later...
...more daily newspapers than any other man in the U. S. (Scripps-Howard chain of 24 dailies*), the second largest press association (United Press), two of the greatest newspaper syndicates (United Feature and N.E.A.), one of the leading news picture services (Acme), and three minor radio stations-a journalistic kingdom worth well over...
...Major J. ("Father") Divine, Harlem cultist whose followers believe he is God, has many "extensions" or "kingdoms." Chief one until last week was a three-story building, rank with human and culinary odors, which he rented on Manhattan's 115th Street. Why this kingdom had not long since collapsed was the wonder of any outsider who ever attended a meeting there, felt its floors reverberate to the rhythmic pounding of a thousand Corybantic Negro feet. Many a Harlemite believes the black "God's" following is dwindling. Last week Father Divine's chief kingdom, still apparently in good...
...British Empire were destroyed, the Führer went on pointedly to say, the United Kingdom would soon enough thirst for overseas territory as Germany thirsts today. The English did not secure their colonies by holding democratic plebiscites among the natives, continued the Chancellor, "but through naked, brutal force...