Word: taken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Laborite Arthur Greenwood made a dutiful, taken-for-granted, defense-of-democracy and fear-of-appeasement protest against adjournment that did not ruffle the Prime Minister any more than the Opposition's 195 votes scared him. But when Critic Churchill said: "I have the feeling that things are in a dead balance. . . . The situation in Europe is graver now than it was at this time last year. . . ." the House sat up to take notice...
There were a few cries that by this decree Premier Edouard Daladier was tinkering with democracy in France. But it was also remembered how ably in the past Adolf Hitler had taken advantage of French internal dissensions to further his aggressions...
...Made punishable by death last week were such acts as: 1) publication of military information not made public by the Government; 2) destruction of material involved in national defense; 3) any action tending to "shake the faith" of the armed forces; 4) revelation of measures taken to arrest spies. Such offenses heretofore have usually been punished in times of peace by fines and short jail sentences...
Less humble was Tobacco Millionheir Angier Biddle Duke, 23, who, arrested last June for speeding near Huntington, L. I. (his fourth offense in two months), was last week fined $250, had his driving license taken away from him. Duke angered a Long Island justice of the peace by forgetting just how many times he had been arrested and how big were fines he had paid...
...corn (through Pioneer Hi-Bred Seed Co., originally the Wallace family's), which increases yields 10 to 20%. In corn-growing Iowa, 79% of this year's acreage was planted with yield-increasing seed. Lately Henry Wallace on his daily walk to his office in Washington has taken to stopping in Washington Monument grounds to practice with a boomerang for exercise. But he never threw a better boomerang than his own hybrid seed, whose production economies and improved yield are no consolation to hopelessly overcapacitated corn farmers...