Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Short, stout President Pearson has been in trouble with society members before. In 1910, shortly after he assumed virtual leadership, he accepted for the societies a $25,000 gift from Winchester Arms Co. Horrified bird lovers made him give it back. Since then subdued criticisms have been heard from time to time, occasional horrified ejaculations that a man with a gunner's heart had crept into the Society, was perverting its policies. Last year a pamphlet signed by the late W. DeWitt Miller, vice president of the New Jersey Audubon Society, berated large bird societies for neglecting their duties...
Apes! . . . Cockroaches!" ended in a vote of 318 to 236. The Government had won by a triumphal majority of 82! Once again, Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Bruning was virtual Dictator of Germany, able to put through his policy of drastic fiscal retrenchment under a series of decrees signed by his patron, the man who made him, Old Paul von Hindenburg-until the Reichstag meets again...
Three California Republicans stridently contested their great state's gubernatorial primary election this year-Governor Clement Calhoun Young, Mayor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. of San Francisco, District Attorney Buron Fitts of Los Angeles County. Excitement was heightened by the Republicans' virtual knowledge that their nominee would be California's next Governor after an easy victory in November over Milton K. Young, Democrat...
...advancement of Peru's Indian population. Possibly with the best of intentions small President Leguia has not only made enemies of hundreds of old Peruvian families, by confiscation of their ancient estates, distributing their land to Indians, but he has made enemies of the Indians by forcing them into virtual slavery through his road-building campaign. By the law of Conscription Vial (road conscription) all Peruvians must work two weeks a year on Peruvian highways. Moneyed Peruvians evade the road gangs by paying a highway tax, so do other Peruvians who have friends in office. Indians who have neither money...
Thus was called to national attention a virtual war which has been raging in Webster County since July 1. On that date, 75% of the county's coalminers, all of whom had walked out April i protesting against a wage cut, demanding better working conditions (contrary to the advice of their union, United Mine Workers of America), returned to their jobs, starved & weary. The other 25% set about trying to resume the strike; 19 are under indictment for intimidation. Fort- night ago, several dynamite explosions boomed in plants of the Diamond Mine Co., Meador, Holt & Young Co. Then last...