Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consisting of Attorney General Cummings, Secretaries Swanson, Ickes, Dern and Roper was waiting to be taken aboard the cruiser, whose isolation the President liked so well that he elected to remain aboard 36 more hours before going to the White House. While his skeleton Cabinet of landlubbers prepared to brave seasickness on the Chesapeake's choppy waters in order to keep their appointment, the President fired a bombshell over the warship's wireless at the London Conference. The bomb-enunciation of a brand new reason for his refusal to stabilize currencies-exploded; seemed about to collapse the Conference...
...Lausanne last week the robbery was made good. No longer even a Prince but, after renunciation of his rights, merely "Count de Covadonga," the Bourbon Bridegroom put on a brave front. "Most princesses in Europe," said he, "are empty-headed little dancing flirts. I am getting a real princess, one who is sweet and serious and will make a real home...
Chancellor Dollfuss gave British sympathy for his brave fight against Naziism no chance to cool. Dr. Wasserback was transferred to London, where Britons could see him, hear him. Chancellor Dollfuss ended his opening address to the Conference with a quotation from Schiller: "The best man cannot live in peace if his wicked neighbors will not leave him in peace." Delegates cheered. To a U. S. reporter he added...
During the week the Japanese aircraft carrier Kamoi anchored off Taku, only 37 mi. from Tientsin. Swarms of fighting planes took off to reconnoitre. Town after town fell before the Japanese advance. Chinese commanders could do little but make brave statements. Cried Premier Wang Ching-wei of the Nationalist Government...
Every energetic newshawk has pipelines of information which flow only so long as they remain hidden. A brave newshawk would sooner go to jail-and sometimes he does-than violate journalism's law: Never expose your pipelines. Last week the Governor of New Jersey signed a bill giving the Press the same right of protecting confidences that is enjoyed by the medical and legal professions. It provides that the newsman need not make known to any county grand jury, legislative committee or other investigating body the source of information obtained by him and published in his paper. A similar...