Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in London the House of Commons rang with this declaration by President Walter Runciman of the British Board of Trade: "We are having considerable trouble with Japan as a competitor and so is the whole Western World. It may be necessary for the Western World to stand together in the common economic cause...
Three hours later the telephone rang in the Hart home in San Jose. To Brooke Hart's sister a voice said: "Your brother is being held for $40.000 ransom, and if the family notifies the police, they will never see Brooke Hart again." A printed card and two letters arrived later from the kidnappers: "Your son is o.k. and treated well. ... Be ready to take a week's trip on an hour's notice. . . . Brooke is not with the writer but is held at a remote point. ... He is being treated as well as possible...
Instantly cries of "Sacrilege!" "Infamy!" rang throughout the Evangelical Church. Three influential non-Nazi pastors even demanded a rescinding of the rule against "non-Aryans" in the Church. The sounds of fury and chaos rose to Reichsbischof Ludwig Muller. As the personal friend and henchman of Chancellor Hitler, he might have been expected to side with the Sportpalast "reformers." Instead, caught by the news from Berlin while traveling in southern Germany, he sent a telegram of strong reproof: "I speak only as leader of the Church who is responsible for the preservation of the creed before God. ... It is said...
Whanging a big dinner bell, the Premier rang to order in Rome the National Council of Corporations, destined, most Italians assume, to supplant the Chamber. In Italy corporazioni ("corporations") are the higher groups which represent the basic Fascist syndicates of employers and employes. Every Italian, whatever his business, trade or profession, is represented by and must pay dues to the local syndicate of his occupation. He need not belong to the syndicate but he is bound by the bargains it makes respecting his wages and working hours or-if he is an employer-respecting the wages he must...
...bitterly against its former champion, denounced him for splitting the Reform ticket, declared that McKee's hankering for another taste of public life had been whetted last month when, as leader of a bankers' section of the NRA parade, he had failed to receive such cheers as rang in his ears when he was President of the Board of Aldermen and Acting Mayor. More credible was this straight political reasoning: Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, national and State chairman of the Democracy, was out with his Bronx ally, New York's Secretary of State Edward Joseph Flynn...