Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Certain legislation loomed in France last week, as of drastic import...
Sudden and drastic was the passage by the German Reichstag, last week, of a bill raising the duty on imported automobile parts from 12% ad valorem to 28%. Enacted to take effect on Jan. 15, 1928, the new measure loomed, last week, as a deadly threat to five U. S. motor manufacturers* which have recently spent $12,000,000 on assembling plants and the development of sales organizations in Germany. Officials of the threatened U. S. group said, last week, that they had had a "working agreement" with the Ministry of Commerce that no such bill would be passed...
...Communist Party Congress- a great hive of angry bees which have been droning monotonously at Moscow-took drastic action, last week, and expelled from the party 98 extremely prominent Communists. In Russia, expulsion from the one and only party permitted to exist is a sentence of political death. No Russian not a Communist in good party standing, can hold public office. The 98 who were thus "politically executed," last week, suffered this penalty because they are supporters of two World-known Russian statesmen who have tried to lead an Opposition in the Communist party but were recently expelled from...
...real power is therefore in the hands of the radical farm bloc, who will be in a position to force through drastic legislation, such as farm relief and the curtailment of judicial favor to issue injunctions in labor disputes...
...each nation. The proposal was boldly put and of course politely sidetracked. But it was not unpremeditated. M. Litvinoff had silenced the Trotzky opposition at home and, at the same time, managed to oppose the League plan in such a way that while openly committed to the most drastic sort of disarmament, Russia may remain outside all security agreements and thus continue to maintain the second largest, perhaps the largest, army-in the world...