Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Jan. 3 the U. S. Senate has got along with 95 members and West Virginia with only one Senator. Neither Senate nor State seemed to suffer appreciably under this arrangement. Nevertheless when Rush Drew Holt celebrated his 30th birthday last week, the Senate spent two full days arguing over whether he was constitutionally entitled to the Senate seat to which West Virginia elected him last autumn...
...Duce likewise turned on his charm, with the result that their conversation was marked by a cordiality quite removed from the slight frigidity which attended Mr. Eden's explanations to France. Reserving most of his diplomatic honey for a second conversation to be held next day, Mr. Eden nevertheless found time in two hours to assure Signor Mussolini that Britain would make no further bilateral agreements with Germany affecting armaments. Il Duce seemed satisfied...
They had cleared Hongkong's headland when there appeared off their starboard bow none other than the crack cruiser of the loyal Nanking navy, the four-year-old, Japanese-made Ning Hai. Smaller, theoretically slower and equipped with only 5.5-in. guns, the Ning Hai is nevertheless in fighting trim and none of its guns is in pawn. It straightway opened fire on the Hai Shen and Hai Chi. The two old baggages heavily turned tail, labored back into Hongkong Harbor. Soon after, Ning Hai put in too, and its officers variously explained that the shots had been...
...Nevertheless, the Union Bag project last week received the blessing of the Dearborn Conference of Agriculture, Industry & Science, a group organized last spring to promote the use of farm products in industry and now functioning as the Farm Chemurgic Council (TIME, May 20). The Council carefully called the public's attention to the works of Chemist Charles Holmes Herty, who has long dreamed of transferring the newsprint industry from the spruce forests of Canada to the pine woods of Georgia. For several years Chemist Herty experimented with the pine pulp on a $40,000 grant from his native State...
Dominion bankers denied a conspiracy, suavely hinting that underwriting of Ontario obligations was too risky a business. Nevertheless, Premier Hepburn promptly declared war. He spoke darkly of special, if not punitive, taxes on "surplus money," refused audiences to banking emissaries, threatened to withdraw all Provincial balances from commercial banks, announced plans for 30 new branches of the Government-owned savings bank system, upped the system's interest rate from 2% to 2½%, to tempt deposits away from private institutions...