Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only two real objections to this magnificent scheme," said Mr. Lloyd George with concentrated sarcasm. "One is that the Dominions will never grant free trade to each other or to England; and the other is that Englishmen will never undertake the erection of a tariff wall against the rest of the world. Otherwise I think the scheme is all right." Two days later in Canberra, Australia, the Dominion Prime Minister, blunt Laborite James Henry Scullin practically echoed the Welshman. "There is no hope," said he, "of getting Australia to agree to allow the goods of every other part...
...days, while Mme Leontine gradually overcame her repulsion to the weapon, the Desotrats practiced marksmanship against the garden wall, M. Paul shouting encouragements: "Vas y! Go to it, Leontine! Tire encore!" Mme Leontine's mother, blind, partially deaf, quietly sat in her garden chair, listening to the popping of the pistol...
Moscow's conclusion seems a mere deduction from the fact that U. S.-Mexican relations have not for a generation been so cordial as now. True, the President-Elect of Mexico, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, was accused of "going to Wall Street and Washington for his orders" when he paid his goodwill visit to President Hoover (TIME, Dec. 30), but there is no proof that he ever received any orders...
Last week a troop of 600 White (anti-Communist) Russians suddenly raided and almost wrecked the office at Harbin, Manchuria of the new Soviet manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway, Comrade Rudy. Excited Moscow saw in this raid the "sinister" hands of Washington and Wall Street, the right hand perhaps not knowing what the left doeth. Isvestia in rampant rage called the U. S. "the imperialist leader of all the nations now arrayed against...
City of Sin? Sodom, so wicked that the Lord rained brimstone and fire upon it, was thought found by Father Mallon of the Pontifical Bible Institute of Jerusalem, on the plains of Jordan. A few vases, flint instruments, broken pottery, the ruins of an ancient wall were found, all covered with a thick layer of ashes. The evidence pointed to inhabitancy during the Bronze...