Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subsidy debates much was made of the revelation that Pierre Etienne Flandin, Minister of Finance, had been and was believed still to be counsel for Aeropostale. No one questioned M. Flan-din's honor; but with the Chamber already embattled, the fact of his association made Aeropostale an admirable target for the opponents of Premier Laval. One of the accusations was that Flandin was "trying to maneuver" the Government into taking financial responsibility for Aeropostale. Finally the Government voted to participate as a shareholder (probably between 25% and 33%) of the Company...
President Hoover last week accepted one great national issue and helped build up another. He accepted the Insurgents' challenge on the Power issue by vetoing the Muscle Shoals Bill. His pocket veto of the Wagner Bill to reform the Federal employment service loomed like a big square target for Democrats to shoot...
...exercise requiring excellent physical condition. Last week in Manhattan the Salle d'Armes Vince team won the national three-weapon championship of the Amateur Fencers League of America principally because they were more youthful, in better condition than their experienced opponents. With the foils, against the limited target of a padded chest; with the stiffer French duelling sword or epee, with which hits count when scored on any part of the body; with the sabre in the conventionalized contests that have developed from a ferocious slashing to a technique of no unnecessary movements, they beat the Fencers Club...
...eccentric orbit. According to astronomical custom, only asteroids which move in an ordinary orbit are given feminine names. The cycle of Eros' motion with relation to Earth is 81 years. In 1975 it will approach even nearer than this year, will again be a handy though tiny target for rocketeers...
...jailed, one missing-such was the 1930 mortality of New York City's judiciary up to last week, with investigations still going on. To the record last week came additions: one more judge indicted, one more resigned. The indictment was for George F. Ewald, the resigned magistrate, original target of the inquiry which Governor Roosevelt was forced to order some months ago when his political foes (Republican) aroused public suspicion that New York City judgeships were being sold for cash by Tammany Hall. Two county juries came to no decision on Judge Ewald's case, though a Federal...