Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Lawrence confessed: "It was evident that if we won the war these promises would be dead paper, and had I been an honest adviser of the Arabs I would have advised them to go home and not risk their lives for such stuff. But I salved myself with the hope that by leading these Arabs madly in a final victory I would establish them with arms in a position so assured (if not dominant) that expediency would counsel a fair settlement of their claims...
Meantime in Cleveland the 151st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. got out the brown paper and string, showed itself ready & willing to make a neat bundle: itself, the Presbyterian Church of the U. S. (Southern) and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Aggregate membership of this big bundle: about 4,500,000. The Assembly formally invited the Southern Church, split off by slavery in 1861, to rejoin it. It approved a concordat, drawn up last year by Presbyterian and Episcopal commissions, for cooperation between the two churches, beginning in local congregations (TIME, Feb. 6). As Moderator...
...them (for orange stamps): $29,026 to which the U. S. added $14,513 for blue stamps. After the first rush, stamp sales noticeably slackened, and Relief officials concluded that many of their clients would require much "education" before they would give up regular money for pretty pieces of paper. One in four of Rochester's WPAsters volunteered to accept stamps in lieu of part of their next paycheck...
Last week that policy was made public. Having promised the Jews a "homeland" and the Arabs an independent State in Palestine, the British in a White Paper as bland as Lord Runciman's apologia for the Czecho-Slovakia debacle, chose to interpret this to mean that the Jews should have about as much "homeland" as they have now achieved in Palestine, but that they should not be allowed to expand to a point of depriving the Arabs of their majority control in politics and land ownership. Jews fumed and charged that once more Great Britain had expediently bowed...
...Legation Quarter at Peking, turn over to their puppet Government for a new Federal Reserve Bank some $9,000.000 in silver belonging to the Chinese Government-controlled banks. When foreign authorities (backed by the French and British Governments) refused, the Japanese took the extraordinary procedure of issuing paper money "against" this silver...