Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fascist Directorate vigorously protests against the affirmation in the recent papal encyclical according to which the Fascist oath is taken for the sake of bread, or career, or life. . . . It rejects the grave insult. . . . The Fascist Party . . . is a fighting organization on a military pattern, which made a revolution and has the imperious duty of defending it against everyone...
...scandal, crime, faked news & faked pictures to an illiterate circulation, he quit and went to the Mirror (TIME. July 22, 1929). There he could print at least some legitimate news along with sex and crime. There he was permitted to write a .column called "Now and Then," on the pattern of Brisbane's "Today." There too he found opportunity to dis- gorge some of the bile which his pornoGraphic experience had secreted within him. He wrote, in his office after working hours nearly every night for a year, a version of his five mad years on the Graphic. Last...
...fears came when Canada, biggest U. S. customer, frankly upped all her rates to match. France and England, though taking no action (except on cinemas in France), complained so loudly that much ill-will was bred. Australia's almost complete embargo was a nationalistic move after the U. S. pattern. Only a series of revolutions have checked wall-building in South America, but meantime ill-will has increased...
...cigarets, plays golf with Walter Hagen clubs, shows a marked dancing preference for U. S. young women, plays U. S. jazz on his saxophone, and as Empire Salesman "threw" for South American bigwig prospects at least one major salesman's drinking party of approved, standardized U. S. pattern, at Vina del Mar, Chile (TIME, March...
...price structure as it existed on some antecedent date near to the declaration of war. . . . That determined, we need a method of freezing the whole price structure at that level. The obvious way to do this is simple: By proclamation to decree that every price in the whole national pattern as of that determined date, shall be one maximum that thenceforth may be charged for anything-rents, wages, interest rates, commissions, fees, in short, the price of every item and service in commerce. . . . Such a system would reduce the cost of war by 50% . . . eliminate war profits and inflation . . . conserve...