Word: tantamount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These concluding words of General Casado were tantamount to disavowing responsibility for Loyalist radicalism. By other junta members Dr. Negrin was called a "perjurer and a traitor" and accused of acting unconstitutionally. In Generalissimo Franco's jubilant territory it was said that Loyalist Spain had at last overthrown the "yoke of Moscow." Supporters of the Negrin Cabinet fled the country. It was obvious that they considered it no longer safe to remain...
...Improvement" of Guam would, in the present state of U. S.-Japan relations, be tantamount to fortification of Guam. It would be a provocative gesture even if excused by Japan's alleged fortification of islands in the absorbed mandate groups (Caroline and Marshall)-and particularly when viewed in connection with the British desire to control Japan's approach to the Netherlands Indies and British Malaya (oil, coal, rubber, food). More provocative, Guam is only 1,356 miles from Yokohama...
...Germans burst with pride. Germans might eat many substitute foods or wear ersatz clothes but they did eat. What Adolf Hitler & Co. did to the German people in that time left civilized men and women aghast. Civil rights and liberties have disappeared. Opposition to the Nazi regime has become tantamount to suicide or worse. Free speech and free assembly are anachronisms. The reputations of the once-vaunted German centres of learning have vanished. Education has been reduced to a National Socialist catechism...
...customs and traffic control will be in German hands. The two parts of Czechoslovakia will be connected by tunnels and overpasses. >So completely has Czechoslovakia come under German authority that last week it proceeded in the best authoritarian manner to nominate a President to succeed resigned Dr. Benes. Nomination (tantamount to election) was done by the National Assembly, now an impotent body in the control of the State Party for National Unity, which, in turn, is dominated by the Cabinet of Premier Jan Syrovy, the one-eyed general. Week ahead of time Czech newspapers announced that Dr. Emil Hacha...
...commissions were created not merely to find facts but to formulate standards and impose duties which may go so far as to destroy a man's livelihood. Whatever jurists may say, to businessmen the imposition of duties is tantamount to adjudication of rights, while the writing or rules is legislation to all practical purposes. At the very least these functions are more than fact-finding...