Word: tana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laval kept on asking if Mussolini would not retreat from his position of demanding Ethiopia for Italy, agree to formation of a joint Italo-Anglo-Franco Exploitation Company "for opening up Ethiopia," and promise to keep out of that part of Ethiopia in which Britain has keenest interest, Lake Tana which feeds the Blue Nile. This proposition they made conditional on the unlikely fluke that it would be accepted by both the Emperor of Ethiopia and the League of Nations. It must also be accompanied, stipulated Captain Eden and Premier Laval, by a declaration that "the independence of Ethiopia remains...
...chaste white lambs pomped with ribbons looked at the Pope last week, on the anniversary of St. Agnes' deathday. They had just come from blessing in the Church of St. Agnes on the Via Nomen-tana, Rome...
...Jameson, New York political giftmaker, testify that he had contributed $65,300 to Bishop Cannon's anti-Smith Presidential campaign in Virginia (May 19). While on its face nothing was wrong with this contribution, it was mostly in cash, and Wisconsin's Senator John James Elaine, Mon tana's Senator Thomas James Walsh, the only lobby lions present, apparently thought something pertinent to their investigation lay hid behind...