Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...code permits but 48 hours, and for improper posting of gasoline prices. Last week they pleaded guilty "rather than be called obstructionists," were fined $400 (out of a possible $13,500). Elated at the outcome of the first criminal prosecution under the oil code, Secretary Ickes crowed, "A signal victory . . . most gratifying . . . a warning to other violators...
Nazis charge that the fire was set by Communists as the symbol of and signal for a nation-wide Communist revolt. Not the slightest proof of this ever materialized, the Nazis themselves assuming all power instead and using the Reichstag fire as an excuse for Chancellor Hitler's repressive acts (TIME, March 13 et seq.). Last week amid Firebug van der Lubbe's passionate protest, Judge Bunger suspended the trial for half an hour and the Dutchman was led below. When brought back into court he again seemed stupefied as in the past but suddenly began to writhe...
...cocktails, bad Scotch and gin-&-gingenle. That in 1934 the U. S. will drink at least 200,000,000 gal. of something seems certain. That that something will be mostly whiskey is the bet of most of the shrewd gentlemen waiting on the line for the Repeal signal...
...Mother Church. Amazingly, hundreds of wives of Spanish grandees and nobles who have been living fearfully abroad boldly returned, bringing their husbands in many cases, to vote as their consciences commanded. All over Spain the arrival of a priest to pop his ballot into a voting urn was the signal for fervent female demonstrations, shrill appeals to the Holy Virgin to see that the election came out right...
...particular blast of Dr. Sprague is likely to be the signal for serious battle, which he promises to begin with a series of syndicated articles on good and bad monetary policies. Carrying the prestige of the "brain trust" to the Roosevelt public opinion and that of the Bank of England to American industrialists and bankers, his opposition will undoubtedly be of prime importance in undermining the President's general support. This, in the opinion of Castor and myself, is indeed a great misfortune. The story is told that at a banquet in London, where Dr. Sprague waxed conservatively eloquent over...