Word: armsful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First the Senate got rid of a move to split the Pittman bill in two, divorcing the controversial arms-embargo section from the less controversial title-and-carry provisions. Although New Hampshire's Charles Tobey had proposed this split in a sincere desire to get U. S. shipping immediately...
No mellow statesman is fire-breathing Hamilton Fish, since 1919 the chosen U. S. Representative of the 249,589 inhabitants of Orange, Putnam and Dutchess counties in New York. To onetime Tackle Ham Fish, who represents in Harvard football history what the late Big Bill Edwards did in Princeton'...
>Tacitly rebuked William Green for pledging A. F. of L. to support the President's neutrality program. The convention approved cash & carry sales to warring nations, stayed neutral on repeal of the arms embargo.
"The report was a shameless, frivolous trick of the British Ministry of lies and the British Secret Service," cracked the Chancellery's angry denial, which all Berlin afternoon papers repeated under big black headlines. "It was intended only to plunge the peoples of the world into anxiety, as everyone...
"Everything that happened in Russia during the Revolution was repeated. They fought against the power of the toilers. . . . Many Catholic priests with arms in hand tried to protect the capitalists' domination of the workers.