Word: avoiders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nations of the world are faced with the issue of determining whether relations shall be characterized by international anarchy and lawlessness or by principles of fair play, justice and order under law. No nation and no government can avoid the issue; neither can any nation avoid participation, willing or not, in the responsibility of determining which course of action shall prevail...
...larger expropriations of foreign-owned oil properties. These seizures, resulting in grave loss of markets and taxes, have undermined Mexico's national currency to a cracking point (TIME, Aug. 29). The Hull-Welles stratagem of confining their claims to "small" U. S. interests was adopted partly to avoid charges of Imperialism, also partly to give Señior Cardenas a graceful out. But Mexico's President has no easy out. In Mexico's economic crisis he needs U. S: comfort and support. He also needs the powerful support of Mexico's left-wingers, who regard President...
...Zurich already has a four-story, subterranean retreat into which officials can dive at a moment's notice. To avoid confusion as to what is the right way to number the floors' of a building underground, each floor has been given, not a number, but a color. The shelter has a 1,000-gallon water supply, a phonograph "well-stocked with records of comforting melodies...
...fixers, snarling reporters-into racy, raucous entertainment, as insignificant and as lively as tomorrow's sports page. Best characterization: Frank Morgan as the hero's whiskey-soaked, lazy, conniving father, a onetime impresario of trained seals, who launches his son's ring career in order to avoid the indignity of going to work as a ditchdigger...
...pilots assured me they would avoid dangerous acrobatics," nervously replied the War Minister, eyeing the visible perturbation of the Corps Diplomatique in their grandstand a few yards away. "I agree with...