Word: taine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank E. Gannett of Rochester, N. Y., has permitted each of his 18 papers to main tain its traditional partisanship. All but one are more or less Republican...
...become highly sympathetic to the League. They had not only become highly sympathetic, but they also gave the further impression that if they won the election they would bend every effort to securing a major triumph for Geneva by contriving ''through the League of Nations" to main tain the independence and territorial integrity of Ethiopia. Strong was the popular impression that no solution which did not remove the last Italian soldier from Ethiopian soil would be countenanced by His Majesty's Government...
...four days he and his 2,000 men-stiff-fezzed Askaris and undrilled Danakil tribesmen, backed by a battery of moun- tain artillery mounted on camels-had made the most spectacular forced march of the entire Ethiopian campaign. To protect the flank of Italy's main army of the north with its spearhead at Makale, they had gone where no white men had ever gone before, skirting the blazing Danakil Desert, then up over the bitter cold highlands facing the Derdega Mountains. One thing General Mariotti knew: Degiac Kassa Sebat was ahead of him with an indefinite number...
...distinguished audience that the Cardinal had before him. Representing Germany was plump Hermann Wilhelm Göring and a group of Nazi generals. Marshal Pétain and Foreign Minister Pierre Laval of France were there. Because U. S. Ambassador Cudahy was on vacation, busy, bald William C. Bullitt flew from Moscow to represent the U. S. The Earl of Cavan, a field marshal in the British Army, represented George...
...Minister General Denain proceeded with drastic plans to revamp the entire fighting service in his charge. By decree of President Lebrun, ex-War Minister Marshal Pétain was reinstated, this time permanently, as a member of the Supreme Council of National Defense. "We shall develop our alliances and our friendships," proclaimed Premier Flandin. "We shall strengthen our national defense...