Word: setup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With sense really common and widely diffused, John Bull realized by the million last week that the British General Election Nov. 14 is a setup. John reacted with unprecedented apathy. To the acute distress of local candidates, John simply did not attend their meetings. Exactly 26 voters of whom 24 were women were all the audience Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare drew when he returned from Geneva, presumably with earth-shaking news about Europe's crisis. In all constituencies candidates bitterly complained that party leaders had "greatly overdone the wireless." John Bull, feeling that John Bullish Prime Minister Stanley...
Tech will be no setup for Jack Carr's men, out after their sixth win. Though they have lost as many games as they have won, including a 4-0 trimming by the Elis, the Red, White, and Gray held Brown, decisive Harvard conquerors...
Under either King or Bennett there is little doubt that Canadians would fight in any popular Empire war and would not fight in one for which they felt distaste. Under Bennett or King no great reduction of Canadian tariffs is conceivable, nor any major change in the capitalist setup. For that, restive Canadians were looking to other parties...
Basic cause of Virginia-Carolina dissension is the corporation's stock setup. There are three classes of stock-first, a Prior Preference stock, which pays a 7% cumulative dividend; then a Participating Preferred, which pays a 6% cumulative dividend; and finally a common stock, which has never paid any dividends since the present company was organized in 1926. The company is $16.50 per share in arrears on the Prior Preference, $43 per share behind on the Participating...
This, the general predicted, will result in "a paradise of live-&-let-live" in China. "A new political setup, independent of Nanking politically as well as economically, is necessary in North China. This region has annual revenues exceeding $130,000,000-ample for an independent State...