Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Worried liberals in the House of Commons tried to find out something about British plane sales to Germany. Up rose Robert Bernays, Member for Bristol...
...Britain's Crown colonies would be limited henceforth to the average amount imported irom each country during the years 1927-31. While statisticians with slide rule and pencil last week figured out these quota restrictions, it was a fact that exports of Japanese cotton goods to all countries rose from 1,413,480.000 sq. yd. in 1927 to 2.090,228,000 sq. yd. in 1933 and surpassed the total British exports of cotton goods for the first time in history. Though tariffs on Japanese goods have been raised in a dozen countries year after year Japanese wages...
...efficient domestic cotton industry capable of supplv-mg all but 25% of her needs. That 25% was the prize, and in 1929 Britain got twice as much of it as did Japan. Then came Depression, the Gandhi anti-British boy, depreciation of the yen. Japanese cotton sales to India rose "and rose until by 1932 they not only passed Britain but were cutting seriously into the sales of the Indian mills. In 1933 the Indian Government increased the tariff on foreign cotton goods, which was mostly Japanese, to 5%, set the duty on British cotton...
...Bethlehem native who in 1898 founded the Bach Festivals, made them bravely survive the invasion of steel. Conductor Carey used "Mr. Fred's" chorus composed of Lehigh Valley amateurs. Like "Mr. Fred," he had players from the Philadelphia Orchestra and four capable soloists (Soprano Ethyl Hayden, Contralto Rose Bampton, Tenor Dan Gridley, Basso Julius Huehn). But with all his display of energy Conductor Carey's interpretations were superficial. And the performances, often muddled and sluggish, gave Bethlehemites good cause for concern over their Bach supremacy. The conductor who presided over the May Festival at Ann Arbor last week...
...result of the military defeat, King Fordinand was forced to abdiento, since the alliance with the Central Powers had been principally his undertaking. Under his son and successor, Boris, the Agrarian party rose to power. By 1920, Stambolisky succeeded in establishing a virtual dictatorship in his party, and in the next three years managed to alienate a number of important groups in the state. Since he was chiefly interested in the peasant proprietors, he became increasingly intolerant and oppressive of other classes...