Word: breach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Press last week was the fact that President Roosevelt has withdrawn the moral approval which 165,000,000 Russians were happy to think he extended when he recognized the Soviet Union (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933). Until they read that President Roosevelt has charged their Government with flagrant breach of faith (TIME, Sept. 2), that Moscow replied last week by rejecting and refusing to argue the charge, and that Secretary of State Cordell Hull thereupon recorded the Red breach upon white paper for future reference (see p. 11), Russians will continue to believe that Moscow & Washington are the best...
...wind: 1) In London the County Council agreed, after holding out for twelve years, to hire married women as teachers. 2) In Washington Dr. Caroline Ware, onetime NRA Consumers' Adviser, one-time associate professor of history at Vassar, prepared to sue the University of Wyoming for breach of contract. Grounds: Wyoming offered her a job in its summer school, reneged when it found she was married...
...built of cement under foreign supervision in 1931 held precariously. Amphibian planes reconnoitering above Hankow reported that for miles around the fertile countryside had become a boiling sea with humans clinging to treetops, fated to starve if not to drown. Four presumably crazed Chinese caught near Hankow attempting to breach a dike were instantly shot. Seeping waters invaded even the sacrosanct property of Standard Oil and the Japanese Concession, and a wall of British-American Tobacco Co. fell like the crack of doom. Said the U. S. chief engineer of the Yangtze River Conservation Commission, Col. G. C. Strobe...
Judicial Jules Sauerwein of Paris-Soir, dean of French foreign affairs editors, observed: "There is only one way to avoid war and that is for the Ethiopian Emperor to give Italy adequate satisfaction. Any other method will end in a breach between Italy and the League and in profound disturbance of France's entire policy in Central Europe. If Britain should invoke international principles, we shall be able to reply that she herself sells them cheaply when it is a question of modifying, by her sole decision, the entire naval status of the Reich...
...Bitterest spleen was reserved for the Administration's principal pressagent in its fight against power companies-the Federal Trade Commission. Declaring that he was still searching for stronger words, the Institute's Managing Director Bernard Francis Weadock accused the Commission of "fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, dishonesty, downright maliciousness, breach of trust" in its eight-year power probe (TIME, Feb. 27, 1928, et seq.). Director Weadock is supposed to be the only person who has ploughed through every page of the 73 volumes of the Commission's findings. The five Commissioners he exonerates on the ground that they...