Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week there was no body of information available to British press or public on which any such charges as those of Richard Stokes could be made to stick in a court of law. But everyone was hearing stories of disgruntled contractors who complained of price rigging on Government contracts by successful rival contractors...
...whole, were not unruly. Small groups, chiefly students, ventured an occasional "Heil Benes!" or "Heil the Republic!," but most celebrants merely walked the streets silently, wearing black neckties and armbands, and occasionally Czech colors and Masaryk caps. Police ripped off these symbols of mourning and hope. Czechs made for Wenceslaus Square, for centuries their gathering place in times of emotion. They found it blocked off by mounted police and gendarmes...
...trouble making the point that Premier Duplessis had raised the conscription issue to cover the appalling state of Quebec's finances. Showing that the provincial public debt, having been $150,000,000 when the Union Nationale took over, was now at least $286,000,000, they made no specific charges but cleverly asked: "Where has it gone?" The Duplessis campaign promises began to get vague. Then the Federal Government came out against him: the three Quebec Liberals in the King Cabinet threatened to resign if he won, and spectacular Minister of Justice Ernest Lapointe, who might be Canada...
...that I could kill some more Germans." And last week in Germany, his race had once again to pay for his crime. All during 1939 Jews in Germany have frantically sold their property at ruinous prices in efforts to pay their $400,000,000 fine. On Aug. 15 they made "final payments," but last week Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk announced that this has proved "not enough...
...promises when out of office easier to make than laws when in. He dropped trust-busting for labor-baiting, and the law for which he is best known is his Padlock Law, allowing him to shut any building merely suspected of harboring "Communists," which term he defined broadly. He made himself ridiculous by cutting his own salary, then restoring the cut; by decreeing French to be Quebec's official language, then rescinding the decree. Because he used Hitler's theories of racism, Mussolini's system of corporatist trade-union laws, and Huey Long's finger-wagging...