Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britons been jobless. Ominous last week was a warning issued by the Government's Industrial Transfer Board that there are now at least 200,000 "permanently unemployed" British coal miners who must either be transferred to other employment or continue indefinitely half-starved upon the dole. A most drastic move to prevent further increase in unemployment was made, last week, quite independently of the Government, by the British Railway Managers Association and the Great National Unions of locomotive engineers, firemen, railway men and railway clubs. Jointly and solemnly they covenanted that for the next twelvemonth...
...Senator Antonio Mosconi, a Venetian aristocrat, was next informed that he is expected to immortalize his name rounding out a fecund cycle bounded by Six Points: 1) "Immutable maintainance of the present level of stabilization (i lira equals $.0526)." 2) Total curtailment of foreign borrowing by the State, plus drastic censorship of private Italian loan flotations abroad. 3) Stern coercion of Italian tax evaders and delinquents, "who are the vilest leeches sucking the blood of human society." 4) "Resolute avoidance of any increase in taxation." 5) "Introduction of the most crystalline simplicity and clarity in all state accounts, so that...
Rightdoers in Great Britain are protected from newspaper libel by laws far more drastic than any similar U. S. statute. Last week Manhattan's Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes won heavy compensation from the London Sunday Express which had erroneously reported the Cardinal to have said that the late assassinated Irish Free State Minister of Justice Kevin O'Higgins was "an English hireling...
...official manifesto General Fukuda declared: "The Chinese show an open stand of belligerency. Therefore, to punish the guilty and uphold the dignity of the Japanese Empire I am obliged to take such drastic measures as I deem necessary...
...words fail. For some weeks U. S. Cinema Censor Will H. Hays has been in Paris speaking none but fair words (TIME, April 2). His ticklish task has been to persuade the Cinematic Control Commission of the French Ministry of Public Instruction that it ought to modify a recent drastic decree. This was, in effect, that U. S. cinema dramas would be licensed for exhibition in France solely upon condition that for every four films so licensed U. S. exhibitors would purchase one French film and display it throughout...