Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime scandal of the 1938 primary season was-on the basis of excited statements last fortnight by the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee (TIME, Aug. 8)-the knockdown, drag-out fight in Tennessee between the team of Senator George L. Berry & Governor Gordon Browning and the team of Senator Kenneth D. McKellar & Boss Ed Crump of Memphis. Coercion of WPAsters, ballot-box stuffing, martial law, shootings, sluggings, kidnappings and general mayhem were anticipated when Chairman Sheppard of the Committee rushed extra agents into Tennessee and announced that whoever won this Senate race would probably have his seat challenged on the floor...
...House of Commons last week adjourned to November 1, giving the Chamberlain Cabinet a general vote of confidence after a speech in which the Prime Minister explained his novel move for solving the Czechoslovak Question (see p. 15). The session closed with a fiery field day of spouted indignation because ships of the Royal Navy continue to stand by while British freighters are bombed in the ports of Leftist Spain. No fervent orator, however, went so far as to demand the alternative: that Spanish Rightist bombers be fired upon by Britons. As members sped to their homes, the Spanish...
...Eire Act set the seal of Parliament on the new and even freer status which Prime Minister Eamon de Valera won for his country in the British Commonwealth (TIME...
...sisal. Meanwhile, at home, Portugal was in a mess. With two exceptions, budgets were unbalanced for three-quarters of a century and between 1910 and 1926 the nation went through 18 revolutions, some 40 changes of government. Finally in 1926 the army took control, later set up a dictatorship. Prime force behind the present rule is Dr. Salazar, who is now Minister of Finance, War and Foreign Affairs as well as Premier...
...prime points...