Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kept repeating that France was demanding, first 11% on her money; second, the appointment of French officials as financial supervisors of Hungary; third, the leasing of the state railways; finally the resignation of Count Bethlen who has long been anti-French in policy, whose greatest coup was signing a virtual alliance with Benito Mussolini...
...been a Peer of Britain only since 1923. In revenge for that he traces his ancestry back to Vortigern, King of the Britons (who in turn reputedly traced his ancestry back to the Emperor Maximus), and at 40 had made himself master of Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., virtual owner of the Union Castle, White Star, Lamport & Holt and half a dozen other lines, the most powerful figure in the world's mercantile marine...
...President but even there there was no "whooping-it-up-for-Hoover," no lusty demonstrations, no hat-tossing. Careful planning by the Hoover bodyguard averted all unfriendly exhibitions throughout the trip. At Springfield 350 "hunger marchers" who planned to demonstrate before the President were kept off-stage under virtual arrest by the local police. Republicans comforted themselves with the thought that, as Alfred Emanuel Smith discovered in 1928, noisy receptions do not always mean big votes...
...Provisional President, has in his veins a trace of Jewish blood. Last week when Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Toledo, returned from a visit to Pope Pius XI and attempted to slip into Spain, he was caught by police of the Zamora Government, detained under virtual arrest at Guadalajara, "asked to leave Spain...
...wealthy automobile builder William Crapo Durant, was severely shaken when her airplane crashed through the fence of an airport at Santa Barbara, Calif. With her was a pilot and a Dr. N. H. Brish, physician to rich Stanley McCormick at the great estate where Mr. McCormick is held virtual prisoner as an incompetent...