Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent Puerto Rican political campaigns Nationalists made an earnest effort to win by murdering a number of opposition workers. Last autumn Nationalists rioted at Rio Piedras, with the result that four of them were killed by the police. Resentful indeed were their colleagues because of this massacre...
...recent radioration the Premier enlivened his remarks by telling the story of the engaged young man who calls on his fiancée in a maternity ward only to have her exclaim: "If this is what marriage means, John, our engagement is off!" To the thousands of devoted followers of William Aberhart who are paying members of his Prophetic Bible Institute, there is nothing about this story which makes it unsuitable for the family circle. Deluged, however, was the Canadian Radio Commission with telephone calls, telegrams and written demands that Social Credit in the person of William Aberhart be curbed...
...change must be slow in coming to a parliamentary system so formalized and impotent as Japan's. Nevertheless, it has been suddenly observed in recent weeks that Japan's few rabble-rousing proletarian candidates were actually drawing audiences of respectable size. As the slow Japanese counting of votes began, a big surprise broke last week when the previously minuscule Social Masses Party was seen to have won 18 seats in the new Diet, all of which will be occupied by thoroughgoing rabble-rousers who can make Japanese politics lively if they dare...
...measures" undertaken by Viscount Monsell, First Lord of the Admiralty, War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper and Air Secretary Viscount Swinton solely because of "Eden Diplomacy." All three Ministers rose in the House to ask still more money for their departments. Meanwhile last week Foreign Secretary Eden replied to the recent Italian note in which Ambassador Dino Grandi argued that the British naval demonstration in the Mediterranean is not justified under any part of the League Covenant and asked His Majesty's Government how they account for their "unilateral action" which Italy protests...
...order: On stamps His Majesty is to appear at waist-length, and the British stamp size is not to be enlarged. Because the new King figured during the War primarily as an Army man, because he has never had an active Navy command like his father, and because in recent years he has taken special interest in the Royal Air Force, Post Office civil servants were further startled last week when the Sovereign commanded that on the new waist-length stamps he is to appear in naval uniform, bareheaded...