Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, with Rumania in a tighter financial corner than ever, the National Peasant Party won the election again-or was "allowed to win it" as Rumanian cynics observed. Wastrel King Carol at once called on Peasant Party Leader Professor Juliu Maniu, asked him to be Premier again...
...fourth might follow. But two out of Chile's three new heads of State thus far had been the selfsame brainy little cranium of Don Carlos Guillermo Davila, onetime Chilean Ambassador at Washington. Thus the situation at Santiago was comparatively stable last week. Censorship had been clamped down tighter than ever and a state of siege declared. Outgoing telephone calls in English were censored by William Murray, Negro, onetime U. S. boxer. Negro Murray, owner of a gymnasium, enjoys the confidence of Santiago's elite and is not identified with "Yankee Imperialism...
...Governor General of Canada. It is an open secret in London that he was personally picked for the viceroyalty by George V. No one objected. During the War Lord Willingdon served in India as Governor of Bombay, is typically British where Indians are concerned. Today he keeps a far tighter reign as Viceroy than did his immediate predecessor Lord Irwin, who became known as "friendly to Gandhi...
...AFTER VICTORY, STRAP YOUR HELMET TIGHTER...
When Mr. Snowden only pursed his bloodless lips the tighter, Mr. Churchill complained to the Speaker that "the Chancellor is treating this House with insolence and offensiveness ? I may say with supremely insolent indifference and contempt...