Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main political instrument of the Congress consists of the eleven provincial governments. In eight of them the party has a majority, in one other a strong minority. First move would be for those nine to get a vote of censure of Lord Linlithgow's statement from their respective legislatures ; then resign. After that would begin widespread civil disobedience which might cut off Britain's supply of Indian raw materials. This week, Congress orders went out to the nine strong governments to set machinery moving which might do as much to dislocate Britain's Empire as Herr Hitler...
...that like most mortals he ages a little every day and hopes the process will continue for a long time to come. He does not, however, chew tobacco. Nor does he own a blue pencil, he reports, nor has he ever used this or any other kind of writing instrument to revise, delete or otherwise collaborate in a Vandenberg speech...
...Lighting one cigaret from another, wincing as cameramen exploded flashlight bulbs, he unfolded in five hours of testimony an extraordinary story of the degeneration of a political party that, as he pictured it, had begun as an ardent movement for remaking the world and had turned into the instrument of an imperialist power. He said that Stalin dictated the policies of the U. S. Communist Party and that Russia financed...
...letter to the "dear brethren" of the commission in charge of the Concordat, Bishop Manning urged that this instrument, which is bringing "apprehension and dismay to great numbers of our people and clergy," be dropped entirely. The Bishop urged four objections...
About the technical operation of well-run TWA, Frye and Richter today have few worries as they fly the line from San Francisco to Newark. But they never look at the instrument board on a line run without seeing on the compass card a sharp reminder of a TWA deficiency: all its routes run east and west. For TWA is, more strictly than its two coast-to-coast competitors (United and American), a transcontinental line, a long thin line with no feeders to bring in side traffic...