Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Subjected Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to polite badgering about the main naval issue over which the United States and the United Kingdom have for 14 years been at odds. Britain, which has many naval bases, seeks an international treaty to hold all navies down to small-sized short-ranged warboats. The U. S., having fewer naval bases, seeks an international treaty permitting all navies to have large-sized, long-ranged warboats. Last week His Majesty's Loyal Opposition argued that the obvious and fair solution is for the U. S. to enter a treaty limiting all navies to small...
...election since 1932. In theory the poll last week should have settled the paramount issue of Eastern Asia, whether Japanese expansion is to rage on through China at staggering cost or whether the Japanese people disapprove the extravagant and risky militarism which has been the Japanese Government's main policy for the past four years. This central issue was so packed with dynamite-the politicians fearing that the militarists, if crossed, might sweep away all parliamentary institutions-that it simply was not raised. Only one issue of any sort reached the dignity of figuring in dispatches: the "Emperor Organ...
...impressed was the Metropolitan with its purchase last week that, against all precedent, it hung the new Titian at once, in a permanent place of honor at the head of the main stairs...
...against $1,452,000 in 1934. The 1935 profit was best since the company's organization in 1925. Earnings had a distinctly automotive complexion, since this company, along with Columbian Carbon Co., produces about two-thirds of the U. S. supply of carbon black for which the main use is in automobile tires. United Carbon has no preferred stock, last year made $4.70 a common share, sold last week at about 16 times earnings...
Declared Verner W. Main, a Michigan Republican elected to the House last year with the aid of local Townsendites (TIME, Dec. 30) : "I am in favor of the investigation but I don't think we ought to spend $25,000 or $50,000 cutting down a beanstalk to see why Jack doesn't fall. . . . You are attempting to do that which Canute of old failed to do, when he made his futile gesture of commanding the ocean to recede...