Word: vowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rush job, the Turkish Three-Year Plan is intended to lay a foundation for future industrialization rather than to achieve it in 1934. Under Dictator Kemal, as under Dictator Stalin, mass propaganda is rousing backward Turks toward new horizons. Typical is the vow which every Turkish school child must repeat daily...
...tithe is property''-which of course is sacred. Tithe rates (no longer the Biblical tenth of a farmer's produce) run less than $2 per acre per year, but English farmers, faced by a 50% drop in agricultural prices since the Tithe Act of 1925, vow that "On a 1,000-acre farm the tithe costs as much as five workers are paid now!" In Kent alone last week 600 farmers were specifically menaced by actions to seize their livestock. Most Britons agree that the 1925 rates should have been scaled down before Parliament adjourned (TIME...
...trade of foreigners and the upper classes, but that of low-class natives still unused to shoes." Meanwhile what of Son Tommy Bat'a? At the funeral of Father Thomas last year Uncle Jan and all the working Bat'a part ners took a solemn vow "in the presence of our dead chief to uphold his ideals: service to customers through cheap shoe production and service to fellow workers through high wages!" On the bier was laid a bunch of white roses from Thomas Bat'a's son with the inscription : "I prom ise. Tommy." Tommy...
...when Giovanni is at the front. He is brought down in an air fight over enemy terrain. Thinking he is dead, Angela studies to be a nun. Giovanni recovers but gets caught trying to walk back to Italy. By the time he escapes prison camp, Angela has taken her vow of chastity. Giovanni pleads with her to break it. She has no sooner convinced him that this is impossible than a bomb drops on Giovanni. This time he is really done...
Raising his hand high at last Jan Bat'a took a solemn vow "in the presence of our dead chief to uphold his ideals: service to customers through cheap shoe production and service to fellow workers through high wages...