Word: yoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion, Chief Justice Hughes refused to consider anything but the issue of registration, left the rest of the law for future adjudication. This there will surely be when SEC starts reforming the industry after it is completely registered. Some 44% of utility assets have already bowed to the SEC yoke. E. B. & S. and the other holdouts must now follow...
...Year, I nominate General Francisco Franco in appreciation of the death blow he has dealt to international Communism; for liberating the Spanish people from the yoke of Moscow; but chiefly for saving Christian civilization in Spain and thereby throughout the world...
...McCormick. "The aggravating factor in the French colonies, according to the French residents, is the policy of the Popular Front Government (in Paris). . . . French merchants interviewed by this correspondent complain bitterly that agitators from France, representing the Government in power, are inciting the natives to throw off the yoke of France. . . . Mayor Rozis of Algiers, a colonial administrator for 30 years and a consistent friend of the Arabs . . . declared ... in an open letter to Premier Chautemps that the weakness and demagogy of the home Government were responsible for the crisis in Africa...
From Japanese headquarters in Peiping last week it was admitted that, in the course of Japan's persuasion of China to go under her yoke, General Shigeo Fujii, long a veteran of Japanese action in China and credited with the founding of the Japanese controlled Manchukuoan Army, had been murdered by his own men, mutinying to fight against Japan. Killed by other Manchukuoan mutineers was the Japanese-controlled General Liu Kwei-tang. Later in the week came word that the entire Second Division of the Manchukuoan Army led by its Commander Yin Pao-san, and Chief of Staff...
...brought to light with startling vividness with the announcement that there are now three Wolffs and an orang outang to assist delinquent students over the scholastic bumps. Whether the latest addition to Clan Wolff will be tutored by his playmate Peter or whether he will cast aside the paternal yoke and resort to the tutoring note method of self-erudition has not yet been disclosed...