Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrat of his State. But in 1932 St. Louis' Bennett Champ Clark went to the Senate without his help and Boss Pendergast has since had to sign a working agreement to claim patronage only in the western half of the State. The truce has lately been strained, to the dis pleasure of Tom Pendergast. First strain came when young Maurice Milligan, whose Brother Jacob was defeated by Pendergast's Harry Truman for the Senate, was appointed U. S. Attorney for the western district of Missouri with Senator Clark's help and began the campaign to clean...
...Liechtenstein now becomes part of Greater Germany the inhabitants will almost certainly lose their most cherished liberty-freedom from taxation. The ruling Prince, having long footed the Government bills himself, discovered in 1926 a way to relieve the strain on his own diminished income. Watching the rise of confiscatory taxes on corporations, wealthy citizens in Europe and the U. S., he smartly invited foreign corporations and private citizens to incorporate in his state and pay minimum taxes. Since then these foreigner-paid taxes, small as they are, have paid some 45% of the nation's expenses. The Liechtenstein family...
...burst with pride. Over-optimistic Chinese newspapers predicted the Japanese will now be driven back upon Tsinan. One who knows the real situation is Mme Chiang Kaishek, "Wife of 1937," who is at Hong Kong while her husband, Generalissimo Chiang, directs the desperate resistance of China. "The strain on the Generalissimo now is gigantic, almost superhuman," said Mme Chiang last week. "I feel that I must do everything in my power to help him hold up under that strain, because I believe his leadership is vital right...
Twenty-three per cent of U. S. citizens have poor eyesight before they reach 20, 48% before 40. Today more than 63,000 are blind and 100 times as many becoming blind. Heaviest strain on most people's eyes occurs during their school days. Last week the American Standards Association issued a new code calling for considerably more light in U. S. classrooms to save children's eyesight...
...There is no great chance of a European war developing directly from the Austrian crisis," William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History, predicted last night as he told an audience of 200 in Adams House that it is doubtful whether the Rome-Berlin axis can survive the strain Hitler's latest move has placed...