Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right and every reason to maintain as a national policy the fundamental moralities, the teachings of religion and the continuation of efforts to restore peace-for some day, though the time may be distant, we can be of even greater help to a crippled humanity. . . . It seems to me clear, even at the outbreak of this great war, that the influence of America should be consistent in seeking for humanity a final peace which will eliminate, as far as it is possible to do so, the continued use of force between nations...
...Japan. It came just as the ink was drying on a French-Turkish trade pact. It also brought on what was later described as "extraordinary pressure" from Germany. Von Papen was given an hour in which to perform his suave, bully act, then President Inönü made clear to France and Britain that he stood with them in the great lineup. Turkey, said her No. 1 editor, would stand with the Allies "even if the Reich were ten times stronger...
Since it was quite clear last week that negotiations for the German-Russian Pact began at least six months before June 16, it was equally clear that the Far East figured in the Berlin-Moscow dicker. Here was evidence in silver and steel that Russia had traded Germany a free sphere in Eastern Europe for one in Eastern Asia...
Meantime, in Washington, President Roosevelt worried plenty. World War II threatened to trap not only his own family, but 69,000 other U. S. citizens junketing or living in Europe. Not a moment too soon did the Washington clear port. Next morning many a U. S. citizen, his war jitters sharpened by the grim warnings of U. S. embassies, was wildly storming steamship lines only to learn that every vessel was jampacked to the gunwales. During such squalling hours as shipping had not seen since World...
...much dead wood has to be hacked away before the course of true justice can be made to run straight, he makes clear in discussions of the nature of crime, arrest, the jury, the judge, tricks of the trade, fool laws. Clinching his points with many a keenly human story, he reviews such legal circuses as the trial of Bruno Hauptmann (Author Train thinks Hauptmann got what he should have got but not the way he should have got it), a legal lynching like that of Leb Frank, who, though probably innocent, was convicted of rape by a Georgia jury...