Word: averted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same as private boycotts) were the surest road to war, the Socialists, Trotskyites, Lovestonites and peace-at-any-price pacifists rallied behind the Oxford oath. To the support of "collective security" sprang the Communists and Roosevelt liberals, who declared only "positive action" by the U. S. could avert war. But all could agree on a personal boycott of Japan, and in the midst of the wrangle the delegates interrupted their recriminations, marched out on the snow-covered campus, lit matches to a pile of boxes. One girl kicked off her shoes, stripped the silk stockings off her legs and, standing...
...biggest sawmills, but A. F. of L. pickets continued to march. Dave Beck's teamsters refuse to handle lumber from C.I.O. mills. Harry Bridges' longshoremen will not load products of plants still A. F. of L. Indeed, fortnight ago Mr. Bridges had to hasten to Portland to avert the closing of the entire port. One lumber company was being picketed by both sides at once, by C.I.O. because of alleged violation of seniority rights, by A. F. of L. because the mill was C.I.O...
...have occurred had there been a regular inter-House Committee, meeting formally with the Heads of all the Houses, for the purposes of settling dates, arrangements, and general business, and acting as a clearing house for all the Houses. Such a Committee should certainly now be set up to avert possible repetition of such embarrassments, and should function with all the paraphernalia of minutes, notices, and parliamentary procedure. The heads of the House Committees should bear the responsibility of inaugurating such an inter-House Committee, and of giving it the backing of all the Houses in the system...
...their soldiers were down with cholera at Paoshan, and the Chicago Daily News's unsensational Reginald Sweetland cabled: "Swarms of cholera flies stream into homes, restaurants and offices, and [Shanghai] health officials feel that only a sudden change of weather with heavy showers and lower temperatures can avert a major epidemic." Latest news was that 50 people per day were dying of cholera in Shanghai...
Still hunting for a last minute compromise that might avert a major conflict Shigeru Kawagoe, Japanese Ambassador to China, hustled to Shanghai, refused to speak to any but Japanese newspaper men. Finally he issued a statement...