Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Betancourt of Cuba. He, popular in Berlin, as the suave, easy-going Cuban Minister, conducted the soth League Council session at Geneva, Switzerland, with vigor, tact, address. Small Cuba sat metaphorically enthroned over the Powers due to a system of alphabetical rotation which lifts up each nation in turn to the League's High Chai...
Then, because Lithuania was automatically an extraordinary member of the Council, last week, since her affairs were being discussed, the turn of M. Valdemaras came to vote...
Remedies. "Must we turn back?" cried President Kalinin. "Some people are drawing that inference. . . . We must remedy the situation! After ten years of our present policy we have reached a point where we must realize that the shortage of grain for urban or export consumption is not the result of accident or poor crops...
Dictator Stalin, scorning to toy even rhetorically with such questions as "Shall we turn back?" outlined a forward looking four-year program. Keynotes: 1) Larger importations of tractors and farm machinery; 2) Devotion of huge State grain farms to the sole purpose of producing an exportable surplus; 3) Education of the peasants to rotate crops and produce a surplus even above full-to-bursting tummy needs; 4) Speeding up of production by urban workers of goods desired by the peasants but not yet available to them in quantities or at prices sufficiently tempting to seduce canny husbandmen into raising...
Such a community, self-respecting and of a serious turn of mind, heard last week that a local boy had made good in his own home town. For Frank Ernest Gannett, long a power in Rochester by virtue of his evening paper, the Times-Union, rose to the ranks of the city's greatest, stood close beside Cameraman Eastman, when he went last week to his bankers and borrowed most or all of $3,500,000 to buy the Democrat and Chronicle...