Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from the bleeding, dying and bereavement, one result of war is that while it impoverishes most people, some people make money out of it and a few make a lot of money. Last week no less than 50 U. S. Senators, enough to pass any bill, revived the idea of "taxing the profits...
Privately, other explanations for German troop movements in the eastern Alps were given. For a week the Brenner Pass from old Austria into Italy has been closed to civilian traffic. For the same period long German troop and munition trains have been pouring through, southward bound to Italy. Best guess as to their ultimate destination: Italian-owned Libya, in north Africa, where Dictator Benito Mussolini has long planned an "adventure...
...revered Roman institution, the Chamber of Deputies-conceived in the 19th Century's surge of parliamentarianism-was not. Since 1925 (when Il Duce squelched all opposition) its chief activities have been to applaud Dictator Mussolini when he rose to speak, cheer him when he sat down and pass hastily and without debate any and all bills he wanted passed. Although 100% Fascist and a complete rubber stamp, the Chamber nevertheless remained a relic of the recent parliamentary past...
...during the 22nd Dynasty, founded about 950 B.C. If this long-dead king is the first of the Sheshonks-which further exploration may show him to be-then he is the same as the conquering, rapacious "Shishak" referred to in I Kings 14: 25-26: And it came to pass in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: and he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields...
...cities. Containing 768 items, the collection ranges from the classic Oxford Lectern Bible and some 400 other books to waggish menus, from paintings to a "No Trespassing" sign. The "tramp printer" is Bruce Rogers, greatest modern book designer. At 68, a trim, blue-eyed, steady-handed oldster who might pass for a waggish sailing captain, Bruce Rogers is to U. S. book-designing and printing what Frank Lloyd Wright is to architecture, Edward Steichen to photography...