Word: soiling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have arrived at certain very definite convictions as to the amount of money that will be necessary for the sort of public projects that I have described. ... I assure you now they will be within the sound credit of the Government Clearance of slums . . . rural housing . . . rural electrification . . . reforestation . . . soil erosion . . . highways . . . elimination of grade crossings...
...French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou at Marseille (TIME, Oct. 15). It was with Barthou that Mussolini began the secret negotiations which came to a climax last week. The two men never met, dickered through ambassadors. To ensure that nobody should be able to assassinate Pierre Laval on Italian soil last week, his train clicked over tracks guarded every 50 feet by a trim Fascist militiaman who snapped to salute at sight of Excellency Laval and his vivacious daughter José-"Josette" to her adoring papa. As usual Mama Laval remained at home...
Last week the Bolshevik frontier guards glared at a pompous, obviously capitalistic person who came chugging across the frontier River Dniester, made bold to land on Soviet soil. "You can't land." they told him. "Go back...
Nathan Adler, reporter for the "New Masses," landed in New York yesterday, having been refused permission to land on English soil. This fact is comparatively unimportant in itself. It does illustrate, however, the paradoxical position in which the British government finds itself. Ramsay MacDonald, the prime minister, was the leader of the labor party and a convinced socialist five years ago; five years before that he was known as a dangerous radical. During the War he was cursed by all patriots for his pacifism. Yet today he is the leader of a government that considers such men as Mr. Adler...
Meanwhile, Yugoslavia filed charges with the League that Hungary was responsible for the assassination of King Alexander on French soil. The Yugoslav assassin was alleged to have been instructed in the use of weapons at a "murder farm" for Yugoslav terrorists in Hungary. Insulted to the last degree, Hungarian League Delegate Dr. Tibor Eckhardt challenged Yugoslav Foreign Minister Bogoljub Jeftitch to debate the issue on the spot. Hungary was backed up by Italy, II Duce proposing a general all-European investigation of refugee terrorists, such as the antiFascists who plot in Paris to assassinate him. Before this challenge...