Word: backed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of State Hull emerged from a conference with President Roosevelt to announce, in diplomatic language as placid as its true import was severe, that the U. S. would now follow Britain's gesture of appeasement with one of menace. Even as the U. S. fleet was moved back to the Pacific at a moment when Britain needed all her available sea power in European waters (TIME, April 24), so now the U. S., as Britain backed up to ease tension in China, stepped forward threatening a thrust that would open Japan's military jugular if delivered...
...House a maddened Texas delegation composed a resolution praising Garner to the skies, then hastily recalled it from the House press gallery, clipped out one sentence ("He has been a friend of labor for 30 years") and sent it back retyped. A two-minute standing ovation, with applause rent with rebel yells, came when the resolution was read in the House. Only a few New Dealers kept their seats. In the Senate word came around from Boss Garner that he wanted no speeches, demonstration or even mention of the incident...
...suffered four full weeks from an ingenious new C. I. O. strike technique. On July 5, when C. I. O. began striking eleven key plants where 1940 models' jigs, dies and tools are built, General Motors had a week's start on Chrysler, which had been set back two weeks by another C. I. O. strike. Now General Motors was a week behind Chrysler, which planned to open its Plymouth plant August...
...report of a real trip through Spain. Having no truck with the official and political life, Correspondent Longmire wandered through the towns noting the price of eggs, the looks of posters, the crowds at bullfights, jokes, songs and the length of women's bathing suits, came back with a common man's view of a postwar world...
Occupying a suite of rooms at London's swank Savoy Hotel for the past two months has been short, square-faced, blue-eyed Walter Nash. Once a bookseller in the English Midlands, he migrated to New Zealand 30 years ago. Last week he was back in the country of his birth representing his adopted country in a complicated and-for New Zealand-crucial financial deal...