Word: marched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indiscretion is the one thing a member of the British Foreign Office must never commit, and last week London rang with the discovery that on March 3 an indiscretion was committed by Civil Servant Thomas Henry Glasse...
...noon March 19, at the select Paris restaurant Lapérouse, the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, dynamic Liberal elder statesman and great British friend of France, arrived carrying two large military maps. He lunched and conferred, it came out last week, with this curious assortment of Right and Centre French politicians : Georges Bonnet, until recently Finance Minister and before that Ambassador at Washington; Paul Reynaud, also a former Finance Minister and frequently mentioned as a future Rightist Premier; Georges Mandel, the famed "Tiger Cub" disciple of the late Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau; and Jean Ybarnegaray, a lieutenant of Fascist Colonel...
...gaining on Yezhov!" Yezhov, who is the second most powerful man in the Soviet Union as head of the Secret Political Police, won his power by persuading Stalin that the Dictator's life was being menaced by Russia's former Secret Police Chief Yagoda, recently executed (TIME, March 28). The quickest, most dangerous way to climb in Russia is by persuading the Dictator that a new set of his most trusted henchmen have just turned against him, and recently there have been signs that ambitious Soviet Vice Premier Kosior was busy along this same line...
...supreme croupier is a state such as Mexico, which has just calmly raked in by expropriation $400,000,000 worth of oil properties owned by U. S. and British citizens (TIME, March 28). The game of oil must now be resumed in Mexico and, with such mulcted players as Standard Oil and Britain's Shell in a huff last week, there was a grand chance for Rickett & Smith to grab front seats at the Big Table before the wheel began to spin again. There ought to be bargains in Mexican oil today...