Word: regaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madrid a partial independence recently made complete (TIME, Aug. 31). Last week there was a chance that the Catalonian Communists may get the upper hand and establish a Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Likewise there was a chance that momentarily powerless Luis Companys, the Left Republican President of Catalonia, may regain control. But for the time being Barcelona was in the hands of Anarchists and its interesting condition could therefore be described as Anarchy...
...Ruth Bryan married a U. S. artist named William Homer Leavitt, bore him two children before divorcing him in 1909. Next year her marriage to Major Reginald Altham Owen of Britain's Royal Engineers automatically cost her her U. S. citizenship. When she tried to regain it in 1921, after she and her ailing husband had settled in Florida, she found that she would have to be naturalized like any other foreigner. Feminists used her plight as a prime argument in securing passage of the Cable Act of 1922. which provided that a U. S. woman married...
...lament that Ethiopia has suffered invasion. We, with thousands of people of Great Britain, express the hope that the day will soon dawn when Ethiopia will regain her ancient independence and her rightful Emperor will return and, trusting in God, will continue to lead his people toward light and peace...
...then: "My job will be to size up in a realistic way just what the prospects are for American farmers to sell more of their goods." Last week, ending a six-week tour of Europe, Mr. Davis told newshawks in London: "There is not the slightest hope we can regain for some important commodities the great markets here we once enjoyed. . . . The farmers at home must continue national efforts to adjust their production to these changed conditions...
...bill puts the question of their future squarely up to the local politicians. If their bravado proves to be nothing more than that, then the wiser leaders will regain control, provided with an effective radical-silencer. But if these Porto Rican lago's persuade the populace to vote "yes" on the independence referendum, they will have only themselves to blame for the disastrous results that are bound to follow. Porto Rico now enjoys the best possible trade relations with America: in four years, when complete independence would be obtained, she would be allowed no more privileges than any other country...