Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stop-gap King Carol turned to a mediocre Peasant Party politician, M. Alexander Vaida-Voevod, who served as Premier for a time last year, commanded him to form a Cabinet. To outsiders chief interest in this Rumanian shift lay in the fact that M. Vaida-Voevod. when last Premier, nearly signed a non-aggression pact with Rumania's long-standing foe, the Soviet union. With this pact negotiated-lying on the table, so to speak- Moscow cocked a keen, expectant eye on Bucharest...
...cinema showed, while a voice told, how Studebakers can tumble down a hill, be righted and driven off; how they can hurtle over bumps without capsizing or breaking springs. A jacked-up Hupmobile lit with a clavilux raced against a pastoral landscape conveying a dreamlike blonde who pretended to shift gears and then stared at the crowd, not replying to youths, flushed by dinner, who requested a ride. A horrible robot with red eyes and a death-green face demonstrated Rockne placards to the accompaniment of diabolic roaring and swaying. People crowded around to see if it was human...
...company-to-company shift was made by Robert Henry ("Roy") Faulkner. 46, who resigned as president of Auburn Automobile Co. and was last year made a vice president of Studebaker Corp., in charge of Fierce-Arrow sales...
...spite of these drawbacks, the plan embodied in the bill has a definite prospect of success. The augment that it constitutes a consumers' tax, designed to shift to one class a tremendous amount of purchasing power, is no objection to the plan. Obviously that is the purpose of any farm relief scheme. The increased purchasing power of the farmer will soon make itself felt in the demand for industrial products. There can be no true prosperity in this country as long as a large part of the population is on the verge of bankrupted. Throughout the latter half...
Deprived of its test match with Brae Burn, which had been scheduled tentatively for last Wednesday, the Varsity will enter the Toronto encounter without having met an opponent since the game in Montreal on December 23. Practice sessions however have resulted in a shift in the first forward' wall which probably assures a place in the starting lineup for lan Baldwin '33 at left wing and Benjamin Beale '34, who has been transferred to right wing from his defense position of the early season. The first string defense remains the same for the Toronto tilt...