Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above favorite maxim of Il Duce, that "No one may claim equality with him who represents the Government of the State," was given peculiar legal force at a Cabinet meeting last week. Rapping for order, Il Duce presented a decree embodying the notorious "electoral reforms" recently proposed by the Fascist Grand Council (TIME...
...submitted by exclusively Fascist organizations, such as the 13 "corporations" which represent all Fascist agricultural, industrial and employer groups; 3) Suffrage to be accorded to celibate citizens over 21 or to married citizens over 18, provided that they pay certain taxes or are of the recognized clergy or are state employes...
Interest keened at a statement from Amir Amanullah's resplendent Minister of State. This functionary affirmed that His Majesty still regards with "uncompromising hostility" the British Empire, from which he wrested Afghan independence in 1921. Nonetheless the Amir will shortly visit London, "because of a desire to see our worst enemies at home...
Misshapen and frayed as a badly done potato pancake, the old horned toad that lugubriously blinked in the Eastland, Tex., drugstore window last week proved all the lies that Texans had ever told of Nature's antics in their state. The reptile had lived for 31 years in the sealed hollow of the local courthouse cornerstone. So averred honest men who had just dug it out, and one remembered having planned to put a horned toad in the stone at its laying 31 years ago. The idea then, and even now, in Texas is that a horned toad...
...industry has not yet turned that corner 'round which prophets have been trying to squint for several months, nevertheless 9,300 Vacuum oil stockholders were reassured last week that their great lubricating oil company was in a better state of financial health than the ailing gasoline companies. The morning's mail brought announcement of a 100% stock dividend, worth $367,328,304 at the market price of the stock...