Word: token
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this year Dae, the livest radio character in France, is starting a variation of the treasure-hunt idea, in which he drops token coins in hiding places around Paris, directs listeners to them somewhat as Uncle Don tells U. S. youngsters where the family has hidden their birthday presents...
Most embarrassed by these disclosures was British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who has said many times that he took Il Duce's word for it that Italian help to Generalissimo Franco would be reduced, not increased. Three months ago a token withdrawal of 10,000 Italian troops from Spain took place. On that showing Mr. Chamberlain implemented an Anglo-Italian treaty. Although Dictator Mussolini was expected to demand of the Prime Minister at Rome next week (see p. 21) that Britain grant belligerent rights to Rebel Spain, from London last week came hints that Mr. Chamberlain, for his part...
...result last year was that the Student Council, which controls all things political among the Yardlings, conservatively postponed the elections for one month, by that token acknowledging the use of class officials to be negligible. This year the development of the Union Committee should be carried to its logical conclusion with the total abolition of the elections. The members of the Union Committee are well chosen, representing nearly all the halls, both private and public schools, commuters and residents, the East and the West. Until the time, which will come with Student Council elections in the spring of the Sophomore...
...Spain, who voted Leftist when Spain had elections, have usually been cool toward the Italian "volunteers" brought in by tens of thousands to help Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco in Spain's civil war. Last week, as some 12,000 Italian infantrymen prepared to return to Italy in a "token" withdrawal of Italian troops, controlled Rightist newspapers and spokesmen whooped up enthusiasm to show Rightist Spain's official gratitude to Fascist Italy...
Most interested spectator of the Italian leave-taking was a Britisher, Francis Hemming, secretary of London's Non-intervention Committee. No secret is it that by this "token" withdrawal both Dictator Benito Mussolini and Generalissimo Franco hope to persuade Britain and France to grant belligerent rights to Rightist Spain. To New York Times Correspondent William P. Carney, however, Mr. Hemming said that Italian aviators, artillerymen and technicians as well as infantrymen ought to be withdrawn...