Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terms of the pact signed in Paris last week make it operative within the covenant framework of the League of Nations, unless the League Council fails or declines to act, whereupon nations which sign the pact will render "aid and assistance" to block "unprovoked aggression." The treaty runs for five years and unless denounced by one of the signatories at the end of the fourth year, runs indefinitely. It was accompanied last week by important pourparlers for Franco-Russian cooperation, economic as well as military. The French and Soviet general staffs will shortly exchange key experts. More important, France contemplates...
...Army clique began fulminating so many different plots to overthrow the "transitory Cabinet" that this week Tsar Boris called a score of Army bigwigs to the Palace. They were still defiant. Whereupon the Little Tsar summoned a detachment of military school cadets who herded the grizzled officers into confinement...
Last week President Roosevelt let it be known that two of his favorite hymns were "Be Strong" and "Oh, Master, Let Me Walk with Thee." Whereupon, dropping the administrative lethargy which had spread gloom through Washington for weeks, and reasserting his political strength, the master of the White House persuaded the Senate to walk once more with him. His 4.88-billion-dollar Relief Bill was brought back from the purgatory of Committee, whither it had been sent last month after the addition of the McCarran "prevailing wage" amendment had made the measure wholly unacceptable to the President...
...Black Creek Railroad, one is a professor of anthropology at Columbia, and the other of Hebraic Languages at Harvard. These trusted scholars are delightfully duped by Benny and friends until they are accosted by a man who says that he is an agent for the Department of Justice, whereupon one of the chorus girls pipes up "What's Justice?" When the Justice man informs Benny that he doesn't own the railroad after all, that ingenious wag turns the whole thing into the Black Creek Farm on top of a Pont House in New York, and then goes with great...
...elaborate villa, egg-headed, effete Hero-Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio awaited, no longer sulky. Poet and Premier hugged each other, and made a gracious courtesy of getting through the gate. Insisted the Poet: "You first. Duce. I am in my own house. It is I who give orders here." Whereupon, 21 guns boomed a salute from the prow of the warship which Poet d'Annunzio had mounted on a cliff. Toward the house the pair moved, the host exclaiming: "I have so much to show...