Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Badoglio's beast: Was it mustard perhaps-out of pity For the traces of poisonous gas? Or did he ride into the city On a mule-or an ass? Marshal Badoglio rode into the Ethiopian capital on a small dapple-grey. Last week, 15 days after his triumphant entry, Italy's new Viceroy of Ethiopia rode out again in an airplane piloted by his son, who has acted as an aerial chauffeur for his father ever since the beginning of the campaign. Officially the Marshal was returning to Italy, to rest briefly and take his annual cure...
Quietly and politely, Mr. May proceeded to spoil completely the happy satisfaction which had been glowing in the face of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. since his comparatively triumphant appearance before the Committee last fortnight (TIME, May 11). From that gentleman farmer's prepared statement, Mr. May quoted a paragraph asserting that under present law, U. S. corporations would this year withhold from stockholders more than $4,500,000,000 of income, thus depriving the Treasury of some $1,300,.000,000 which it would receive in individual income taxes if that sum were distributed as dividends...
...reader whose primary interests are character and narrative will find the book clear to his reading. From all walks of life a variety of figures illustrates the thesis: Alderman Mrs. Beddows, the shrewd and courageous old lady, triumphant over an unhappy marriage; Lydia Holly, the intelligent and unfortunate daughter of an old rogue whose impecunious family lives in a derelict railway car; Miss Sigglesthwaite, learned science mistress of the high school, who is totally incompetent to rule her incorrigible pupils: Snaith, the wealthy alderman, whose reforms are intellectual rather than humanitarian; Midge Carne, the neurotic, unhappy adolescent granddaughter of Lord...
...Democratic primary, four anti-Roosevelt hopefuls took part. Dentist Joseph A. Coutremarsh, 61. and one other candidate favored Coutremarsh-for-President. Two others were unpledged. All four trailed the ticket, leaving Franklin Roosevelt triumphant...
...program of Léon Blum are so "abominable" that they can think of no other in France equally abominable. Nevertheless the "popular Front" of the Radical Socialists, the Socialists and the Communists last week finally steamrollered through the Chamber of Deputies the Franco-Soviet Pact by a triumphant majority of 353-to-164. Among his bandages Jew Léon Blum chuckled as this harsh stroke immediately moved Nazi Adolf Hitler to make the most fawning and friendly gestures he has ever made toward France...