Word: conning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with every question of such vital import to members of the University, many reasons, pro and con, have been advanced. The gentle-minded say that pity has been taken upon the school children, presumably, who lose their finest marbles through treacherous cracks. The hard-headed say that no longer is there an abundance of hard wood. The practical-minded point to the costs of labor. The average-minded jingles elusive coins in his pockets, and decides it is for the general good. The foreman of the present crew of workers recalls one of his men having found as much...
...reported, is to be sent to Manchuria in supreme command of 1) the Government of the Japanese Leased [from China] Territory of Kwantung; 2) the Japanese Kwantung Army; 3) the Japanese Army in Manchuria proper and all parts of the so-called independent state of "Manchoukuo"; 4) all Japanese con suls throughout Manchoukuo...
Since the Accord de Con fiance soon provoked last week an indignant blast from President Hoover and since Le Temps of Paris called it "the most important international act in recent world history," observers scrutinized the full text...
This confirmed Havas and undoubtedly represented the real views of the French Government last week. L' Ere Nouvelle, personal organ of Premier Herriot, exulted: "The Accord de Con fiance constitutes on the same basis as the Locarno and Briand-Kellogg pacts one of the most important political events on an international scale since Versailles...
Privately French officials called this British statement a mass of weasel words uttered to impress U. S. public opinion but contrary to the letter of the Accord de Con fiance which Britain signed. What Europe owes, they asserted, most certainly "affects the European regime" and is therefore explicitly included in (not excluded from) the purview of the Accord de Con fiance...