Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suddenly came the moment the Senate has been waiting for since last Feb. 5 when the President called for Court Reform, the moment that meant the final decision in the bitterest legislative battle of a decade. In an instant, the Senate was in an uproar. Loudest voice in the tumult of shouts and laughter was Pennsylvania's Guffey, last-ditch supporter of the President's demand for more Justices, slamming his desk with the palm of his hand to get attention and crying, "Mr. President, Mr. President, I want to be recorded as voting against this Bill...
...month (TIME, July 19, et seq.) shelved the Italian scheme for weeks. By any scheme of tactics a counteroffensive was immediately necessary and it was undertaken with continuing but vague reports of Rightist successes. Then last week came that serpent of troops and trucks from Burgos and Vitoria. It meant that the Rightist offensive at Madrid had been checked too, and the Italian plan was getting another inning...
...shortly revealed that Muni had turned down the role on the ground that U. S. citizens might object to the implication that a Jew was the master mind behind the Father of His Country. Nevertheless, Hollywood could not believe he would be reading parts if he seriously meant to retire...
Whether or not this was the end of Cord, it was definitely stated by the new owners that it meant the end of that name in the business he had founded. What the new name will be is yet to be determined by the banking houses of Emanuel & Co. and Schroder, Rockefeller & Co. Inc. but placed in charge as the active heir to Cord's kingdom was his hard-boiled lieutenant and friend of many years, Lucius Bass Manning, now president of Aviation Corp., who personally acquired 158,000 of Cord's 500,000 shares of Cord Corp...
...stop to check the Leftists at Madrid, started another drive against Leftist positions 100 mi. east of Madrid and then turned to statecraft, forming a Cabinet of seven ministers, five of them generals. To Spaniards the name of General Martinez Anido as Minister of Interior, in charge of police, meant that any last vestige of possible compromise with Spain's Communists, Anarchists and Socialists had been deliberately wiped out by the Rightists. Martinez Anido was Vice-Premier under the late Spanish Dictator Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, suppressed with hundreds of executions the proletarian uprising in Barcelona when...