Word: opened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's Magna Charta gave the power and prerogatives to the barons, who have held them ever since-the backdoor of the peerage-cum-charmed political circle always being carefully left wide open to "commoners" who have the dough and can read without moving their lips, also, for safety's sake, to an occasional pale pink radical with an orthodox Imperial slant to his ideas. The country's masses, politically ignorant and acquiescent because they are continually mesmerized by a puppet press masquerading as democratic, have yet to realize that they are on the outside looking...
...many possible methods proposed for the accomplishment of the end. . . . It is true that the precise method [for New-Dealizing the Court] which I recommended was not adopted, but the objective, as every person in the United States knows today, was achieved. The results are not even open to dispute...
...like many a careless motorist, had just run out of gas. London heard that Il Duce, after piloting his own plane over the troops, had suffered a heart attack. The hard-driving dictator, now 56, did not show up for the concluding review, same night ostentatiously appeared at an open-air opera. But the rumors persisted. For answering a query about them, Herbert-Roslyn ("Bud") Ekins, United Press man in Rome, got the most drastic punishment ever dealt a foreign correspondent, was expelled from the country on 24 hours' notice. The corrected story ran that Benito Mussolini, long suffering...
...loan of $30,000,000 had been settled. If the huge credit goes through, China's face will get some really healthy color in it. In return for U. S. S. R. cash, China would provide Russia with certain raw materials, would keep her northwestern door not only open but clearly marked WALK...
Last week the doors were thrown open. After hearing 227 witnesses and studying the reports of 50 auditors, the Grand Jury had indicted Moses Louis Annenberg on ten counts of income-tax evasion. Publisher Annenberg, said the Grand Jury, had wilfully neglected to pay $3,258,809.97 in taxes, plus penalties and interest of $2,289,574.92-a smashing total of $5,548,384.89, which made this the largest criminal tax-evasion case in U. S. history, not excepting Alphonse Capone...