Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backwash of its major pension battle Californians are waging not only a fight for a Senate seat but for their Governorship. Centre of the Governorship battle...
Twenty-four hours later the Japanese Government launched a brand new major assault upon Chinese Independence in general and the Chinese Generalissimo in particular. In South China waters, on the night after Independence Day, wide-eyed captains of coastal steamers raced for Canton (see map, p. 17) with the news that scores of Japanese naval vessels were massed off Bias Bay, famed hideout of Chinese pirates, only 20 miles from the British Crown colony of Hong Kong...
...Barcelona last week opened a political trial so engrossing that even a major air raid, even, the shattering concussion of bombs which exploded a few hundred yards from the courtroom did not distract the judges, prisoners or spectators. In an atmosphere electric with hate and Spanish passion, Andrés Nin was at last put on trial in absentia. Andrés Nin's small, blonde Russian wife or widow had a ringside spectator's seat...
...Chicago the spectacle of a howling zobah-hah in the Arabian desert. As cinematically reproduced, a zobah-hah is a combination of cyclone and dust storm, accompanied by squeals, floods, twilight and the expenditure of $250,000. In itself sufficient to make Suez rank as one of the major spectacles of the year, the zobah-hah is only an incident in the latest addition to the series of heroic-sized historical plays to which Producer Darryl Francis Zanuck, once a specialist in turning mere newspaper headlines into screen plays, has recently made his forte. Highly romanticized, handsomely decorated and reasonably...
...athletic survey is the second major investigation announced by the Student Council so far this year. The other and major inquiry will be made on the subject of Harvard education as a whole. The committee report will be released at the next council meeting...