Word: setups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last fortnight of the Treaty of Mutual Assistance between France and Russia (TiME, May 13). Last week France, which cherishes its old alliance with Poland even more than its new one with Russia, lost no time in trying to fix up one of the flaws in the new treaty setup, a flaw caused by the fact that Poland's Dictator Pilsudski dis- trusted Russia and rather liked Germany. To Foreign Minister Pierre Laval fell the chore of explaining the innocence of the Franco-Russian treaty to Pilsudski...
...This setup tactful Poles called a democracy, a dictatorship and a republic in one. In Toledo last week suave Dr. Henryk Gruber, who will soon return to his Warsaw job as President of the Postal Savings Bank of Poland, hailed "our new Constitution-one of the most democratic constitutions in Europe! It introduces a New Deal in Poland...
Washington, April 9--President Roosevelt returned to the capital today to supervise the task of putting 7,000,000 unemployed Americans to work and announced he would hold a dozen or more conferences before determining the setup under which $4,000,000,000 will be spent...
...Leaguer is giving considerable thought to the battery problem this year since the pitching end of the baseball team is by long odds the weakest point in Harvard's setup. The graduation of Eddie Loughlin has left a major hole in an already none too potent twirling staff...
...course in economics, differing from that given as the primary one for concentrators in the subject, would make an excellent option for history or government. Although the history aspect would not be gained as well from a course of this sort, the knowledge, while even slight of our present setup and of other types of economic arrangements would be of inestimable value to the many today who have no knowledge of this subject whatsoever. Too many college graduates are ignorant of the most elementary aspects, both political and economic, of the world which they are about to enter. Such...