Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this oblique fashion was announced the biggest news emanating from Washington in many a week. It meant that Franklin Roosevelt, after four months' stubborn insistence on his original plan for enlarging the Court, was at last willing to compromise...
...Cabinet." From the first, one thing was clear: the military Government could not be replaced by an out-&-out liberal one. In a brief radio speech in which he revealed an attractive radio personality, the new Premier declared that he would seek to "heal strife and eliminate friction." This meant that he had to conciliate the Army, recognize the disgruntled civilian parties, win the sympathy of the electorate...
Just six days before Mrs. Wallis Warfield was to become the merry wife of Windsor, this notice appeared in the official Court Circular. This meant that not only would the future Duchess of Windsor be definitely barred from the title of Royal Highness, a rank that even anti-Edwardian palace officials were walling to concede her three weeks ago, but that now she would be least in rank of all Britain's duchesses, as the most recently created...
...outgoing Baldwin Government. Four days earlier King George had personally telephoned his brother at the Chateau de Cande and explained apologetically that he had. been . forced not only to forbid any member of the Royal Family attending the wedding, but any British subject holding a Crown commission, which meant that such a harmless citizen as the former pilot of Edward's private plane. Wing Commander Edward ("Mouse") Fielden, was forced to refuse an invitation together with more potent officers and diplomats who were among the Duke of Windsor's friends...
...steel's bloody ground for the week. One of the two vice-presidencies went to Mr. Irvin, the other to Mr. Weir, who later greeted the banqueting steelmen with a perfect Fascist salute. It was a sweet, though probably hollow, victory for the embattled independents, for it meant that the Institute still stood for a last-ditch fight for the Open Shop...