Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jews it was clearly perfidious that Secretary of State for the Colonies Baron Passfield should have restricted Jewish emigration to Palestine (TIME, Nov. 3 & 10) by an interpretation of the Balfour Declaration which Jews likened to tearing up a "scrap of paper...
...Lima last week the Earl of Chester was seen to be scribbling on a piece of paper in his lap while the mayor wordily presented him with the Freedom of the City. Rising to give thanks and reading from the scrap of paper, H. R. H. pronounced 71 Spanish words, concluded amid cheers: "Cuando la emocion es grande, el discurso es corto." ("When the emotion is great the speech is short...
...specified by the 1924 British-American extraterritorial seizure convention, a rumrunner may also be boarded within one hour's sail of the coast by the boats concerned. Well aware of the potential technicalities of the Josephine K. case, the board of inquiry had the captured ship ballasted with scrap iron, staged a race with the CG-145. The Josephine K. made 9.55 knots, the patrol boat 11.15. Again the evidence was favorable to the Coast Guard. Sea lawyers also remembered the "hot pursuit" clause in the 1924 agreement, but whether a hot pursuit is limited to within an hour...
...Guarantee of Belgian Neutrality, famed "Scrap of Paper" of the War, was signed by Britain, France, Prussia, Russia and Austria in 1839. By it Belgian neutrality was not only guaranteed but independent Belgium was forbidden to enter formal military alliances. The Scrap of Paper quietly disappeared in the Treaty of Versailles. By the 1920 Franco-Belgian Agreement, French officers are present at Belgian maneuvers and General Staff conferences. French military engineers are being consulted in the plans for a great line of fortifications which Belgium is laying down across her eastern frontier. The advantages of this agreement against possible German...
...Protestant Episcopal Church League, unanimously through its executive committee and advisory council, ordered its Secretary Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins* of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., to denounce: "... Amazing lack of scholarship. . . . The simple fact is, that in defiance of every scrap of historical evidence, about which, in reality, there is not the slightest ambiguity, he [Bishop Manning] faithfully follows a tradition which took its origin not from Jesus