Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late for mention in the annual report was news of Banker Giannini's latest excursion out of his native California across the Sierras. Last fortnight Transamerica announced that it had purchased Nevada's biggest bank, First National of Reno. Nevada is as short of banks as it is of rain. It was the first state to declare a moratorium during the Depression-Nov. 1, 1932, day after it celebrated the 68th anniversary of its admission to the Union. No banks have failed since but a tottering chain of twelve institutions, owned by George Wingfield, oldtime gambler and mining...
...McDuffie Bill provides that these Army bases be relinquished and that the future status of the naval bases be the subject for discussion between the Philippine and American governments promptly following the Bill's ratification. This seems another bilious case of Congressional fence-sitting. Foreign powers will make apt mention of Manchukuo when the U. S. A. grants the Philippines independence and reserves for itself naval and coaling stations. The Filipinos appear to have hopes that future negotiations will eventually do away with these vestiges of our imperialism, but the reservations lend an air of duplicity to the whole proceeding...
...week's putative discovery. Once a flourishing and autonomous trade centre, during the early Christian era Mareb fell to successive conquerors and its decay was hastened by the collapse of a great irrigation dam. Modern explorers have found the ruins and numerous inscriptions to identify them, but no mention of any queen. Some authorities suggest that a queen may have lived in the north of Arabia and acquired the wealth of Mareb by force or subterfuge...
...Agin the government'' in every possible way, Heretic Nock makes some general observations that may well shock traditional minds. "A pretty Frenchwoman is worth mention; I never saw more than three that I can remember." Disbelievers in capital punishment will applaud his shrewdness: "When kidnapping was made a capital crime, probably not a single legislator realized that he was voting to put a premium on murder, and to provide a direct encouragement to lynching." A life- long believer in the late Henry George's single tax, he has "never propagandized for it, because our people would...
...Little is known about the Queen of Sheba; her fame has come mostly from the many legends written about her in every language of the world. Always a glamorous figure, she has lived in literature. True, the Bible mentions a Queen of Sheba who was supposed to have ruled over the Sabaeans, a tribe which lived in central Arabia in the small section of inhabitable land which there is in the country. This district is little known archaeologically, however, but exploration may discover other traces of the Sabaeans. Unfortunately, they were little addicted to writing tablets telling of their actions...