Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was done by adopting decrees under which Italians must convert all foreign investments into nine-year 5% Italian Government bonds; Italian corporations are limited as to their dividends and must invest in Government bonds all undistributed profits; and the State assumes a virtual trade monopoly by decreeing that nonwar purchases are in every case subordinated to those fulfilling war needs. Before Dec. 31, 1937 all Italian motor vehicles must be converted to burn substitute fuels, such as coal gas distilled en route from charcoal by the Fiat system. Two days after the Cabinet meeting Italian motorists found that...
Legion Lobbyist John Thomas Taylor once got a virtual bouncing for daring to enter the ornate President's Room where Senators and newshawks confer. But while the Spanish War pensions bill was pending in the Senate, gallery spectators observed another veterans' lobbyist in the Senate chamber itself, not merely sitting on the lounges in the rear but brazenly occupying Senators' seats. As a onetime (1925-27) Senator from Colorado, big. white-haired, black-browed Rice William Means had a right to be on the Senate floor. As tactful lobbvist-in-chief for United Spanish War Veterans...
...reparations for besmirching Argentineans' reputations!" after the U. S. Senate's munitions probe charged the acceptance of bribes by Argentine Army munitions buyers (TIME, Oct. 8). Scared underlings finally broke to General Justo the extreme difficulty of persuading the U. S. Government to let itself be sued, the virtual impossibility of collecting reparations from Washington. Such might be the facts, General Justo admitted, but he would find a way to get the "damned Yanquis" yet, and anyone else who took Argentina's unsullied and inviolate name in vain. With extreme satisfaction the President finally thought up and signed...
William Wesley Waymack, 46, associate editor, has been in charge of the editorial page since Editor Ingham's virtual retirement. Like the Register & Tribune's famed Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, now on leave of absence as Chief of U. S. Biological Survey, he was hired from the Sioux City Journal, He is reputed the best amateur candy maker in the Midwest...
...Huey Long, a virtual wreck, began to sidle toward the door...