Word: breaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...succeed Starhemberg. Locals of the Vienna Heimwehr, however, mutinously announced with a 17-to-4 vote that they still supported Fey, and the split in this private army widened rapidly. Cynical Austrians thought last week that Mussolini would now apportion his largesse in such fashion as to close the breach. Meanwhile Il Duce was more concerned with Austria's public army than with her private army, encouraged the Viennese Government to flout the Treaty of St. Germain by last week calling 8,000 21-year-old youths to compulsory military service...
...Commissioner Langdon W. Post, as spokesmen for New York's utility-hating Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. and Superintendent Ezra Frederick Scattergood of the Los Angeles municipal power plant made speeches declaring that the only hope of getting reasonable utility rates was to start public plants in competition. For this breach of promise, half a dozen U. S. utility men refused to participate in the discussions. Floyd Carlisle of Niagara Hudson Power subsequently took occasion to declare that in spite of its municipal plant, Los Angeles had neither as high electric consumption nor as low rates as the average...
...Force with Force" Adolf Hitler's personal newsorgan Vőlkischer Beobachter thundered last week: "The halting and search of the German steamer Kamerun on the high seas by [Spanish Government] Red Marxist marines is a serious breach of international...
...deserves the name has halted a German steamer on the high seas. . . ." echoed Berlin's Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. "This ship was under the orders of mutineers who at the beginning of the Spanish civil war murdered their officers and threw them overboard. Therefore it is not only a breach of international law but worse that has happened...
...annual convention of the American Veterinary Medical Association. Some 1,850 veterinarians talked shop, slapped backs, sang songs, waved aside the term ''horse doctor" as an obsolete vulgarism, heard scores of papers on such subjects as "The Pathogenesis of Ketosis" and "Infectious Enterohepatitis" gravely pondered the growing breach between sturdy practitioners on farm animals and city doctors who cosset socialites' pets. At the Ohio State Fair grounds there were expert demonstrations of tonsillectomy, caesarian section, amputation of the breast and painless killing of dogs; castration of aged boars; operation for umbilical hernia and rectal prolapse in swine...