Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enacted a major measure for their relief. The measure was the Farm Bankruptcy Act which President Roosevelt signed just before leaving for his holiday. In the final hours of the last session of Congress, Senator Long, filibustered this non-Administration bill to a vote, and a vote meant passage. The latest device to hoist the U. S. farmer out of his mudhole of debt provided that...
...Nazi eyes Dr. Goebbels loomed more than ever a possible successor to Herr Hitler as he rushed among the masses last week and drew cheers from large brownshirt gatherings in Berlin with attacks plainly meant for von Papen and his Hindenburg ilk. "My party comrades," cried Dr. Goebbels, "only the National Socialist party has the right to criticize. To all others I deny that right. If we had relied upon those suave cavaliers who see in National Socialism only a transitory phenomenon, Germany would have been lost. The importance of these persons should not be overestimated. If we stamp...
...white flag of the League flying in the wilderness meant that Colombia and Peru had stopped fighting over the district of Leticia and were letting a League Commission hold this uncomfortable stake while their white-spatted diplomats haggled out terms of peace in the luxury of Rio de Janeiro. Last week the League flag came down with honor amid a rousing chorus of "Vivas...
...back to anthracite coal. Prime reason for the change was the fact that fuel oil stocks have been reduced 20% since September to a ten-year low, with a consequent rise in "Bunker C" prices from $1.05 to $1.80 per bbl. To the oil industry Equitable's decision meant not only the loss of 70,000 bbl. worth of business annually, but a dangerous precedent...
...rifle. A little further on lay an ancient shotgun. One of the goats nibbled at a couple of hand grenades lying in the gutter. In all Bulgarian cities similar debris littered the streets, for the cautious citizenry had suddenly decided that their new Premier, one-eyed Kimon Gueorguieff, meant what he said...