Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of Congressional resolutions concerning specific departments is to forward them promptly to the department concerned for comment before they are reported out of committee. Only relevant comment on the Scott Resolution the State Department could make would be to name Italy, Germany and Japan as treaty breakers-which cautious Secretary Cordell Hull, who was last week golfing at Pinehurst, N. C., has thus far been careful not to do. Byron Scott, who has been trying to get the Neutrality Act repealed, at least as it affects Spain, and who had attended a dinner party of consequential U. S. liberals...
...Widener purchasing department has not made a definite decision yet, but said, "we are willing to purchase any worthwhile books that we do not have." They expressed doubts if there were many books that they could use, however. Widener officials favor a cautious policy of removing the books from Austria, over an attempt to purchase the books all at one time...
...Hankow, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, pleased with the Chinese success, encouraged by the continued inflow of Soviet tanks and warplanes, and gratified because his Kuomintang Party Congress concluded fortnight ago on a note of harmony with the Chinese Communists, was still cautious. "There is still a long way to go," admitted Chiang. "Let us not be proud or over-satisfied with preliminary success, or discouraged by temporary reverses! Let us fight with greater determination...
...Force, became the first woman to command any air force. Acting as her own purchasing agent, Mme Chiang spent an estimated $20,000,000 for war planes, reputedly saved China at least an equal sum in "customary graft." One reason why the hotter-headed Chinese leaders finally persuaded cautious Generalissimo Chiang to engage in war with Japan was that they thought Mme Chiang's war planes were going to bomb Japanese cities...
More significant still are probably his comments on the government careers of those who have gone through college training. Party work in Parliament (regardless of the special label) still holds a strong attraction, while the "clever and cautious people" and those responsive to the prospect of administration activity prefer the civil service. For his American friends Mr. Walton suggests, however, that it "took centuries" to build the British public service tradition...