Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote back its bars. Its new law permits package trade only, for cash not credit,* with the wet-dry option still reserved to each county. Tax: 70? the gallon on whiskey. To Boss Crump's wet Shelby County the only difference will be that thirsty Memphians need no longer drive over the Mississippi River bridge to the nearest liquor store, a big, hugely profitable emporium on the Arkansas shore...
Having decided no longer to ignore the Bolsheviki-to the amusement of Cartoonist Gabriel in the London Daily Worker (see cut), Mr. Chamberlain's new policy became economic as well as social. Leaving next week for a tour of northern Europe is a British trade delegation. It will go first to Berlin, where it will stop for only a day. It will then proceed to Warsaw for a three-day stop and from there to Moscow for five or more days. Most prominent in the delegation will be Robert Spear Hudson, Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade...
...called a "perjurer and a traitor" and accused of acting unconstitutionally. In Generalissimo Franco's jubilant territory it was said that Loyalist Spain had at last overthrown the "yoke of Moscow." Supporters of the Negrin Cabinet fled the country. It was obvious that they considered it no longer safe to remain...
Also, this fast was different. No longer the kingpin of the Indian National Congress, the Mahatma was out to gain new prestige or martyrdom, or even to test his own power. As an issue he picked on the Thakore Saheb (petty chief) Shri Dharmendrasinhji, ruler of Rajkot, who, like almost any other Indian prince, bears down with a heavily jeweled hand on the 75,540 people in his piddling little State of 282 square miles. It was there that Saint Gandhi got his political start...
...just another craft. Like brewers, dyers and weavers who were .hen bringing wealth to its free cities, painters were organized in solid guilds. They had rules of long apprenticeship, traditions of craft, stiff standards for 'masters." Flemings were lucky, because this medieval system lasted at least a century longer among them than anywhere else, led to the great technical discovery of oil painting and its first masters-Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, Hans Memling, Roger van der Weyden...