Word: ments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kingly way," said Marshal Muto when he set up his Changchun Govern ment last year, "is to guide the policy of Manchukuo in a spirit identical with the glorious regime of benevolence and justice peculiar to our imperial destiny to control the moral and spiritual advance of the world...
...does is headed by Secretary of State Hull. At London he is being given his innings to prove his point. If he does not succeed, the economic isolationists, captained by Assistant Secretary of State Moley, will go to bat. Their objective will be a national economy of self-contain-ment. At hand for their innings they will have plenty of brand new heavy bats-the farm relief act, inflation, tariff uppings, embargoes...
...Vandenberg told of a veteran suffering with gunshot wounds in the back, hernia, arthritis and chronic nervousness who was about to lose $82 of his $90 monthly pension. "That means," cried Senator Vandenberg, "he'll get shot in the back a second time-this time by the Govern-ment." The chamber rang with protests against "the horrors of this new deal . . . its unspeakable cruelties . . . its indefensible hardships." Vainly did the President's spokesmen promise that he was about to remedy these injustices. Senators had heard from home and Demo-crats and Republicans alike were afraid to return there...
...years ago, when all British politicians preached free trade, this would have been an unexceptionable remark from the Heir to the Throne. Today there is a potent group in the National Govern-ment who, having swallowed a high tariff and the idea of economic nationalism within the Empire, find it very much to their liking. Leader of this group is long-necked Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer and head of Britain's delegation at the W. E. C. Chancellor Chamberlain, making his last official speech before the Conference's opening, seemed to be replying...
...psychic, "Margery," Mrs. Crandon, removed all clothing before the seances at Harvard, says a signed state- ment of the Harvard group in Dr. Crandon's report. "She wore into the seance room one warm woolen garment," Electric torches, large megaphones, bells, baskets, all illuminated by phosphorescent paint, formed the psychic's equipment. "Several professors wore illuminated Electric bands on feet and wrists, and illuminated marks fastened on the center of the forehead with tape." Twenty minutes after the session began, "Walter," the spirit, began to speak. "This is a nice, comfortable room: looks like the Charlestown Jall. What's this...