Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peasants' delight he urged immediate elections, the abolition of concentration camps and the return from exile in Czechoslovakia of Wincenty Witos, one-time Premier, founder and head of the Peasant Party...
...national unity" was an empty formula without support of two large groups-the National Democrats (made up of conservative nationalists) and the peasants- suggested to his political boss that concessions be made to induce one or both groups to join the united front. Price for peasant support was the return of Witos...
According to the complaint presented by Lawyer Morton, Herbert Fleishhacker in 1919 agreed to let the Anglo Bank lend M. Barde & Sons, Inc. of Seattle and Portland funds to buy steel from the U. S. Shipping Board, in return for which favor he was personally to get half the profits from the sale of the steel. Brothers J. N. and Leonard B. Barde presently received $325,000 from the Anglo Bank, another $175,000 from the Central National Bank of Oakland. The Bardes were successful in their bid for the steel, formed Barde Steel Products Corp. and before long repaid...
...RETURN OF KAI LUNG-Ernest Bramah-Sheridan House...
...ever since, have long delighted patient readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Their low-keyed humor, chess-game pace and subacid satire give them an effect somewhat less than sidesplitting, but for readers who like their slyness slow and stately, Ernest Bramah is a lordly dish. And The Return of Kai Lung shows that his salt has not lost its savor for being kept so long in the attic...