Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the start that forces outside Spain would decide this civil war. Last week the fall of Teruel happened to coincide with a general realization among Spaniards that Chamberlain, Hitler, Chautemps and Mussolini are now dickering toward a four-power agreement (see col. 2). Its effect would be to rule out any victory in Spain for the extreme Left-Communists, Anarchists and the more radical Socialists. General Franco's friends in Britain have always maintained he was ready for a "reasonable Spanish compromise," and with Hitler and Mussolini now telling Chamberlain they want not a square inch of Spanish...
After 20 years of vigorous rule, Pats gave his country on Jan. 1 a new democratic constitution. It promises democratic rights to the nation's 1,100,000 people (88% of them Estonians), guarantees minority rights to Russians (8%) and Germans (1½%), disestablishes the church (most Estonians are Lutherans...
...from the San Antonio health department for 50?," to go to work shelling pecans for the nation to eat. Shortly Editor White was indicted for criminal libel. Certain of his facts, he was delighted, but harassed Mayor Charles Kennon Quin of San Antonio fulminated: "I always make it a rule not to engage in a fumigation contest with a skunk...
...rule: each round-lot short sale must be made at a price above the last sale-a minimum increase of one-eighth of a point a share...
Last week Author Nicolson published his uncle's biography, Helen's Tower. He now recognizes a number of contradictions in his uncle's career; his Liberalism and his love of property, his pity for the Irish peasantry and his opposition to Home Rule, his artistic bent and his fantastic taste in furnishing his country house, Clandeboye, which included everything from cannons to totem poles. These contradictions he treats with disarming irony, wit, charm of style. In his typically English dialect of delicate understatement Nephew Nicolson limns Lord Dufferin's "generosity of soul," his touching love...