Word: possesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since membership in the League requires that the member state have a strong central government and eschew slavery, Il Duce's drift was that the League can save its face by dropping Ethiopia as unworthy of membership and commissioning Italy, who has no slaves and does possess a strong central government, to bring the backward Empire up to date. Only thing wrong with this Fascist argument on its face was that in 1923, when inexperienced Benito Mussolini had been Premier of Italy for only a few months, the Italian Delegation stood sponsor to Ethiopia and enabled that Empire...
Properly speaking, the cinema does not possess a "season." Unlike legitimate theatres, the 14,000 cinemansions in the U. S. aim to keep their doors open at all times. Nonetheless, partly because it coincides with the actual release of the first pictures on the production schedules announced each June, the first half of August is generally regarded as the start of a new year in the cinema business. Last week half a dozen major pictures, in sharp distinction to the products from the bottom of last year's barrel which have been unloaded on exhibitors for the past...
Cross & Red Cross, Most of Coptic Christian Emperor Power of Trinity's subjects are pagans, but that wily monarch claims to possess the very Ark of the Covenant described in the Old Testament and the very Tablets of the Law, straight from Jehovah's own hand and preserved for ages in Ethiopia. Last week these relics which, if authentic, should galvanize the Christian world to action in their defense, were ordered by His Majesty "removed to the mountains...
Throughout Germany last week Nazi newsorgans, striving to belittle Norman-die's records, served up again a rumor millions of Germans have been taught to believe, namely, that their Bremen and Europa possess "speed in reserve" sufficient to win back the Atlantic's blue ribbon. Almost treasonable therefore in Nazi eyes was an unexpected remark in Manhattan by blunt Commodore Leopold Ziegenbein of the Bremen. "I am sure," said he last week, "that neither my ship nor the Europa will attempt to better the records set by the Normandie...
...Bailey conviction and jail sentence looked ironclad to laymen, for His Grace had signed assurances to the pawnbrokers that he possessed the jewels pawned, which he did not possess. Was that not fraud? Last week when Manchester's case reached the Court of Criminal Appeal, it was loftily held by Their Lordships that there had been no "intent to defraud" and therefore no fraud by Manchester because His Grace had been advised by lawyers that he did possess the jewels. In quashing the jail sentence, England's Lord Chief Justice said that the Duke of Manchester "seemed...