Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reversed the positions. The Wets took to the attack, sensationally dramatized the "failure of Prohibition," exhibited the law's breakdown, stressed bloody methods of enforcement. As defenders of the system their own efforts had brought to pass, the Drys lost something of their old aggressiveness, found themselves fighting with blunt weapons...
...never grant free trade to each other or to England; and the other is that Englishmen will never undertake the erection of a tariff wall against the rest of the world. Otherwise I think the scheme is all right." Two days later in Canberra, Australia, the Dominion Prime Minister, blunt Laborite James Henry Scullin practically echoed the Welshman. "There is no hope," said he, "of getting Australia to agree to allow the goods of every other part of the Empire to enter our ports duty free...
...recognizing Moscow, appealed personally, unofficially to the Soviet Government for help for U. S. Flyer Carl Ben Eielson, lost along the coast of Siberia, spurred Alaska's acting Governor Karl Theile to send frantic appeals to two Soviet ships in Siberian waters. Russians were aware that already blunt Senator Borah had cabled for aid directly to Soviet Acting Foreign Minister Litvinov...
...Brusque, blunt, subtle in spite of his manner is Pietro Gasparri. Swarthy, stout of frame, broad of shoulder, his head is Ciceronian. His apartment in the Vatican, directly beneath the Pope's and connected with it by a private elevator, is of two rooms. His retinue includes a butler, a cook, a valet, a green parrot. In the little cemetery at Ussita, his home village, where the peasants call him "Don Pietro," his tomb is ready, inscription...