Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before giving in, however, Britain first had to save face-an important matter in the East-by restoring order to show that she was master of the situation. More British troops having landed, Britain finally began her reconquest of Palestine. With 3,000 soldiers standing by at nearby Gethsemane, Bethlehem and around Jerusalem, Black Watch Coldstream Guards and Royal Northumberland Fusiliers scaled the old Roman walls, marched in through the Biblical Dung and Zion Gates, began to clean up the Old City's underground labyrinths...
...whatever in Mr. de Valera's promises or guarantees. They are valueless in Ulster. We in Ulster feel it is time to put an end to Mr. de Valera's activities. . . . Under no circumstances whatever will we listen to the rattling of the sabre or, for that matter, to the cooing of the dove where the integrity of Ulster is concerned. . . . Any attempt to meet Mr. de Valera's manifesto would lead to civil...
Year ago New York State Superintendent of Insurance Louis H. Pink started hearings on the matter, suggested a sliding interest scale based upon highest grade industrial bond yields plus 1% for expenses. The insurance companies at first opposed any reduction at all, insisting that it would increase the cost of all insurance by forcing investment in short-term securities and reducing interest earnings, would decrease dividends to policyholders (non-borrowers as well as borrowers), would encourage borrowing for speculation during prosperity, and during depression would tend to cause a run on life insurance companies...
...matter of prices, international producers' associations usually step on the accelerator rather than on the brake. But the three-year-old international copper cartel has learned better from the sad experiences of the older cartels. Fortnight ago the cartel permitted an increase in production from 95% to 105% of agreed tonnage. Despite this deterrent, prices continued to rise. Last week the cartel removed all restrictions on production, thus dumped a potential 30,000 tons per month more copper on the international market. This time the U. S. price pulled up short at 11.25?, the export price fell...
...melodramatic disasters which involve half the main characters, as well as all the pigeons, the ornithologist is everywhere at once, confirming his mystical foreboding that no good can come of the millionaire's fanaticism, that "this entire historic enterprise had become archebiosis-the science of making living matter out of the dead...