Word: adding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...cried, and several Laborite back benches cheered. "After all we are a Pacifist party!" Passionately objecting to Britain's £51,739,000 ($251,457,540) appropriation for new naval construction this year, Commander Kenworthy asked the Government to call another naval conference at once and suspend all building ad interim. "Otherwise we might as well say goodbye to the whole movement for Peace and Disarmament...
Instead the new Prime Minister hastily drafted and King Fuad signed a decree constituting a second coup, dissolving Parliament until next November, creating a dictatorship ad interim. The bill King Fuad had previously refused to sign would have made it a crime to govern Egypt thus by decree, would have rendered the new Prime Minister and members of his cabinet liable as criminals to crushing fines and life imprisonment. Last week though cowed into discretion by the imminence of British guns, Nahas Pasha embarked upon a bold, quasi-revolutionary course...
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...Converters Association reversed its traditional pro-tariff stand and asked for the bill's rejection. The National Cigar Leaf Tobacco Association did likewise. The American Importers & Exporters Association urged a veto on the ground that the new tariff rates (highest in U. S. history; an average of 41% ad valorem on all dutiable commodities or 20% above the present law) "will cause ill will and reprisals which will make it impossible for us to develop the export trade necessary to the continued prosperity...
...Commonwealth. In the editorial office sat "H. C.." smoking incessantly, speaking in a voice scarcely above a whisper, writing with the great caution and difficulty of one who must check each utterance by the most exacting dictates of his conscience. Her bert David Croly had performed the ad mirable function of providing a suitable journal for a promising decade. It is not surprising that The New Republic became almost the official organ of the White House during the Wilson Administration. With the War everything changed. Editor Croly naturally espoused the League of Nations-devoted an issue to denouncing its enemies...