Word: quids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the precise text of the covenants secretly arrived at in Rome fortnight ago by Premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval remained secret last week, to the extreme vexation of the League of Nations. That M. Laval, for a political quid pro quo in Europe, had sold Abyssinia down the river to Mussolini few doubted. So far as Africa is concerned, it appeared from official summaries of the secret pacts that Italy had got from France...
...Baiata gang stepped into Lincoln Life the biggest stockholder was Harmey B (for nothing) Hill, who stayed on as board chairman. Supposedly ignorant of the plot, he was nevertheless ousted by the authorities along with the Baiata regime. Last week newshawks found him still at his office, a quid in his cheek, a book on his desk called Why Worry? What did he have to say? "I'll have plenty to say?when the time comes...
...Mexican Embassy at Washington; an unnamed Turkish Minister of Marine; Comptroller General Lopez of Bolivia; an unnamed chef de cabinet of Brazil; an assorted handful of Chinese war lords. The inferences of the correspondence was that almost all of these foreign statesmen had accepted bribes as a quid pro quo in U. S. armament sales abroad. As unofficial protests piled up at the State Department, Secretary Hull attempted to pass them off with a single shrewd remark...
...Quid Pro Quo. Only four tariff concessions did the U. S. make to Cuba: 1) a reduction from 1½ to 9? a lb. on raw sugar; 2) a reduction from $4 to $2.50 a gal on Cuban rum; 3) reductions upwards of 50% on Cuban cigars and tobaccos; 4) reductions averaging about 50% on grape- fruit, lima beans, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, okra, peppers and squash...
Shifting his quid of tobacco from one cheek to the other. Senator Tom Connally of Texas last week laid before the Senate a 14,000-word report on the conduct of the 1932 Louisiana Democratic primary which John H. Overton won, which Edwin S. Broussard lost. Those who expected the Democrat-controlled Senate investigating committee to soft-pedal party scandals in the Pelican State were disappointed. Chairman Connally described the Huey Long machine, which elected Mr. Overton, as "vicious, deplorable and damnable." "I advise anyone who thinks he knows something about politics," said the Texan, "to go down in Louisiana...