Word: rift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invented electric fish nets. The scheme is to lower a network of wires into the water from the fishing boats, pass a current through the water from wire to wire, creating an electric wall which the fish will not pass. The catch is brought in by opening a rift in the electric wall through which the fish swin into an ordinary...
...Housing Administrator James A. Moffett's presence at Warm Springs was readily found. Mr. Moffett is a Warm Springs Foundation trustee. "We trusteed and trusteed and trusteed," reported the President after the board meeting. In private with Trustee Moffett, the President put the finishing touches to patching up the rift over housing between Messrs. Moffett and Ickes...
Lately Rio de Janeiro has buzzed with talk of a rift between President Vargas and his right-hand man. When the President made an appointment against his wishes, Senhor Aranha resigned from his treasury post, was persuaded to reconsider. Probably his standing at home will depend on what he does for huge Brazil's huge coffee output in the trade treaty negotiations pending in Washington. It was Strong Man Aranha who guided the Departamento Nacional do Café, whose wholesale destruction of coffee has brought Brazil something of a boom...
There had been a slight rift when Benito Mussolini drew France, Britain and Germany into his Four-Power Pact (TIME, May 29, 1933, et seq.). This came to nothing but Poland, piqued at not having been invited into Il Duce's prospective club and suspicious of France for joining without her, smoldered with resentment. Warsaw was thus in receptive mood when Berlin proposed Adolf Hitler's most statesmanly idea thus far, namely, that the Polish Corridor question should be put officially on ice for ten years by a non-aggression pact between the two countries. This was duly...
...fierce nationalists, they championed Adolf Hitler from the start. When his Munich beer hall Putsch fizzled in 1923 and Leader Hitler was clapped into a fortress, loyal "Nazi cells" in seven German universities were among the few brownshirt organizations to carry on. Last week came the first open rift between Korpstudenten and a Chancellor who, as one of his first acts, legalized their gory duels...