Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many things" which the President began to tackle next morning at his White House desk, the first was a detailed report on European affairs from Secretary Hull. Last thing Franklin Roosevelt said before sailing away from San Diego last month was that he was going to avoid foreign entanglements. One of the first things he said upon landing at Charleston was that his "great and earnest effort" would be to "keep this country free and unentangled from any great war that may occur in the countries across the sea." The President ran over this melody again, while Secretary Hull played...
...indignant clamor from Californians of high & low degree against Mr. Hearst s publicizing their income tax. State Assemblyman Ford A. Chatters, author of the new law, claimed that the State's Community Property Law would enable a man to split his taxable income with his wife and thus avoid high brackets, so that a income of $200,000 in California would actually pay $10,000 less State and Federal taxes than it would in Florida in Federal taxes alone. This possibility, however would be of no help to Mr. Hearst because Mrs. Hearst does not make even a pretense...
...cannon throw their projectiles and airplanes drop their bombs," the Acting President told the New York Herald Tribune's Forum on Current Affairs, ". . . we are determined not to enter into armed conflicts that may arise between other countries, and to enforce such policies as may be required to avoid that risk...
Early in the afternoon the whole cross country squad traveled by car to the Brookline Country Club for a practise session over the fairways and bunkers. Everything ran along smoothly for the first part of the chase, the squad driving well, approaching carefully to avoid irate golfers, and sinking long putts over smooth greens...
...stumbled home to disgrace his wife. Arrangements were under way for a divorce when he hunted for Gloria, found her at last on a dingy Boston boat, in time to quarrel with her again and witness the accident that ended her intense life. Then he sneaked away to avoid scandal...