Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the time when the former Prime Minister was doing his stopping and starting turn in the aisle of the House of Lords, 62-year-old Arthur Annis was found dead in his London office. He had been political agent for the Conservative Association of Bewdley, had managed Stanley Baldwin's election campaigns in that constituency for 28 years. Day prior. Arthur Annis had remarked to a friend: "When you lose your boss after 28 years you realize you're getting...
...good friend of the brothers was Francesco Nitti, nephew of Francesco Nitti, Prime Minister of Italy, 1919-20. Uncle Nitti, a full-blooded anti-Fascist was hounded out of Rome in 1925, later went to live in Paris. It was with Nephew Nitti that Carlo escaped from his island prison. To the Süreté last week Francesco Nitti declared: "The murder of the Roselli brothers could have been committed . . . only by experts in political crime...
Although the U. S. and its big South American neighbors prevailed upon Bolivia and Paraguay to stop fighting in the Gran Chaco two years ago, the Chaco Peace Conference, meeting intermittently in Buenos Aires ever since, has yet to produce a permanent peace pact. Prime difficulty lies in the fact that the skeleton Bolivian and Paraguayan armies (limited to 5,000 men apiece) have each moved back only a few miles from the positions they held at the time of the armistice, when Paraguay had pushed into 50,000 sq. mi. of the Chaco. This has seemed as natural...
Chancellor Kirkland has always put Vanderbilt first (current endowment: $28,000,000). But more than any other Southern educator he helped to prime the flow of Northern money that has enriched such schools at Tulane, Atlanta and Tuskegee. And the voice of Southern education is the Association of Colleges & Secondary Schools of Southern States which he founded in 1895 to step up admission requirements, arrange transfers, regulate athletic competition...
...credit department, is given to the sales clerk, who notes on the letter the amount of each purchase, the customer being able to buy up to the limit of the letter but no more. Also widely used are "budget plans," varying in detail but all alike on one prime point-any type of merchandise can be bought on credit, paid for in installments...