Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spoliation? Debate on the Government bill for state regulation and unification of the electrical industry evoked serious opposition from the Government's own ranks. Sir Charles Wilson, arch Conservative, nicknamed "the Kaiser of Leeds," flayed the bill: "It envisions "something worse than nationalization?spoliation!" None the less, a vote of 325 to 127 carried the measure past its second reading...
...drumhead. He has "governed by castor oil"?introduced into anti-Fascist throats while anti-Fascist noses were roughly tweaked by Farinacci's Selvaggi ("Savages"). He has earned the title "Right Fist of the Fascist Party." He has been denounced by Cardinal Gasparri as a "vulgar demagog." None the less, Mussolini had him made a lawyer so that he might defend the slayers of Matteotti (TIME, March 22). The rude mechanic from Abruzzi secured the virtual whitewashing of his clients from an Abruzzi Fascist jury (TIME, April...
...support this charge M. Raditch produced a witness than whom none could be more pertinent: M. Liuba Jevanocitch, a supposed henchman of the Premier and Vice President of the Government (Radical) Party. Together M. Raditch and M. Jevanocitch denounced the Premier and his son to pressmen. Loudly they demanded that the Narodna Skupstina (National Assembly) be convened...
Dictator General Theodore Pangalos was administering Greece as a dictature when the week opened. None the less, he had ordered a presidential election and announced himself as a candidate, after directing that the polling be "postponed" in districts not favorable to him. The only Opposition candidate, M. Demerlis, prudently withdrew the night before the election. President General Theodore Pangalos was administering Greece as a Republic-without-a-Parliament when the week closed...
Although several theories about the cause of this phenomenon have been formulated none are entirely satisfactory, and the turning basket still remains a mystery in the minds of most of those who have observed...