Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rear-Admiral Yates Stirling, Commandant of the U. S. Navy Yard in Brooklyn. N. Y., sounded off in similar, though more cautious, vein: "The rise of [Italian] air power . . . seems to have drawn the teeth from the League's Sanctions. . . . The British Fleet, the great arbiter of the seas [can] no longer be considered invincible, at least not in closed seas in near proximity to Italy's land-based air force. ... A massed air attack ... to accomplish the destruction of Great Britain's mighty war fleet . . . might succeed...
Hence, this week the U. S. Senate sees Elmer Austin Benson take a place beside Minnesota's Hendrik Shipstead as No. 2 Farmer-Laborite Senator. Benson's age: 40. His manner: mild, cautious. His religion: Lutheran. His disposition: silent Norwegian determination. His habits : abstemious. His appearance: well-groomed. His instinct: righteous conservatism in everything except politics. Until two years ago he was a bank cashier in his native Appleton. Minn., a man who displayed his deep-seated ambition by being hardworking, meticulous, self-denying and an ardent Farmer-Laborite. Then Governor Olson made him State Securities Commissioner, later...
...will pick an Olympic team to vie with Uruguayans, Bulgarians, Turks and other basketeers next summer. Best explanation for the enthusiasm was the loud-mouthed rivalry between the Midwest's zone defense and wide-open play, the East's man-for-man defense and more cautious offense...
Automatically this made Cuba's colorless and cautious Secretary of State Jose A. Barnet y Vinagres Acting President. Next day the electoral College elected him the Republic's sixth President in 28 months. He clung to about the only thing in Cuba's political ferment he could cling to, the date set by Princeton's Dodds for the next regular election of a President of Cuba...
...month Congressional blockade, quarreling pilots, a cautious paymaster and the staggering difficulty of creating honest work for multimillions of hands had made the Relief ship's progress painfully slow and stormy. By July 1 not a single new job had been made. When the next major deadline, Nov. 1, came & went with the goal less than half achieved. President Roosevelt cautiously predicted that "a great majority" of the promised jobs would have been provided by Dec. 1. WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins flatly set that date as the last & final deadline for ending the Federal dole, with the idea that...