Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Roy Steelman, director of the U. S. Department of Labor's conciliation service, was in a most unhappy state. His manuscript rattled in his hands, he stumbled over his words. At the behest of Madam Secretary Frances Perkins, he had come to Manhattan to make peace between operators in the great Appalachian coal fields and United Mine Workers' John Lewis, who for seven weeks had been unable to agree on a new labor contract. Having heard him out last week, John Lewis ironically announced that the same committeemen who had failed before would continue to negotiate along...
...from the last Davey budget, in turning out the Daveycrats he offended some politicos by holding Republican patronage within bounds. Every inch a Presidential prospect in his own mind, he is mortally afraid that indiscreet friends or canny enemies will boom him too soon, explode his chance to come up opportunely in the convention next year...
...Powers had agreed to form a firm political and military alliance. Considering the firmness of the Rome-Berlin Axis, a formal military alliance seemed to make no change in Europe's balance of power. But what the Foreign Ministers had announced by implication was that Italy would automatically come to the help of Germany in case of trouble, and vice versa. With the fate of the Free City of Danzig already at issue between Germany and Poland, the announcement in effect placed Italy's full force behind Germany's demands...
Officials may come and go with alarming frequency in most Government offices of the U. S. S. R., but not in the Soviet Foreign Commissariat. Amid all the shifts, purges and disappearances of Soviet officials, the Foreign Commissariat's topmost personnel has remained so constant that in 21 years since the proletarian revolution Soviet Russia has had only two Foreign Commissars: Georgy Vasilievich Chicherin, from 1918 to 1930 and Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, his successor...
...threw diplomatic minnesingers off key by proposing-at a disarmament conference of all places-complete disarmament. At a fatuous session of the League of Nations he congratulated the Assembly for "your decisive step backwards." Of the now many times violated Briand-Kellogg Peace Pact he said: "Nothing will come of it." But Soviet Russia signed...