Word: remaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these in the House of Commons recently evoked guffaws, but according to the Foreign Office the obligations of assisting Portugal in case of attack, initiated by British King Henry II and subsequently strengthened by British King Charles II, when he took to wife Portuguese Princess Catherine de Braganza, remain in force. One of these obligations, the Foreign Office gravely announced, is that Britain ''if need be" must go to the aid of Portugal "with a warship carrying at least ten culverins." Culverins were long cannons with peculiar serpent-like adornments much esteemed in the 16th and 17th Centuries...
...last week in great part not Army detachments at all but civilian Socialists, Anarchists and Communists, male and female, for whose benefit the President had opened the arsenals of Spain and handed out some 500,000 rifles, pistols and small arms. In so doing Don Manuel Azana claimed to remain wholly Republican, but he also provided Spain with a problem in civilian arms-toting which it may take years to solve...
...citizens still in Madrid, most of whom have commercial interests there, gallant Mr. Wendelin gave notice that at any moment he might be obliged to close the U. S. Embassy and that every U. S. citizen who had not left the Capital before then would remain at his own risk...
...desk, scampered out before the Cabinet officer's return. Caught two hours later, still seminude, featherbrained Frank ("Woody") Hockaday, 50, onetime Kansas business man who now considers himself an apostle of peace, was lodged in the Gallinger Municipal Hospital psychopathic ward, where attendants remarked he would remain "for quite some time...
Left. By the late Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green, whose mother, miserly Hetty Green, specified in her will that the family fortune remain intact; to his sister, Mrs. Sylvia Green Wilks, an estate estimated at $80,000,000; in Port Henry, N. Y. Mrs. Mabel Harlow Green got nothing, but was made administrator of the fortune by a Texas judge. Claimed last week by officials of New York, Massachusetts, Texas and the U. S. were $65,000,000 in inheritance taxes...