Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people of Great Britain could not by any possibility make up the deficiency necessary to maintain themselves as a great power and still pay what they owe the U. S. in War debts. Because previous Indian boycotts have always broken down, British statesmen were anxious rather than frightened last week, calmly faced the probability that before "nonviolent non-coöperation" has gotten very far there will be enough casual rioting and bloodshed to justify the reimprisonment of Mr. Gandhi (let out of jail in 1924), and the mowing down of a goodly number of gentlemen in white, ladies in pink...
...Radical, Señor Irigoyen has put through such advanced legislation as the bill providing full-pay pensions for all middle-aged workmen. As an Autocrat, he holds every week a semifeudal and entirely unofficial court before which any Buenos Aires bootblack or beef baron who dares to do so may appear and tell his troubles. As an "original," Hipólito Irigoyen is rapidly turning white the hair of Argentina's more orthodox statesmen...
Quick on the rebound is the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kaishek. Less than a month ago the Nationalists were fighting desperately for their very existence; no one knew who would rule China from one day to the next. Last week, their authority temporarily reestablished, the Nationalists dusted their jackets, straightened their horn-rimmed spectacles, strutted again. Cocky Cheng Ting ("C. T.") Wang, Nationalist Foreign Minister, blandly disregarding riot and rebellion, announced that with the first of the year he would abolish the right of extraterritoriality in China, i.e. the right of foreign residents in China to be tried...
Only Argentina has a President like Hipólito Irigoyen. In Buenos Aires last week six policemen pumped bullets into the limp body of an Italian assassin, called world attention to Argentina's President...
Early last week United Press correspondent Emilio Aguidino strolled along Buenos Aires' Calle Brazil smoking a morning cigaret, enjoying the warm December sunshine. Opposite the cigar store above which unique President Irigoyen lives in a modest apartment waited the Presidential automobile with its usual accompaniment of escorting automobiles, aides, detectives. Correspondent Aguidino gave a casual glance at a dingy little man in a faded brown suit who lounged nearby. He saw the dingy little man pull a large pistol from his pocket, run into the middle of the street, fire once. President Irigoyen's chauffeur, quick-witted, sent...