Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sadly detailing his own experiences with TVA, Mr. Willkie claimed that every time his negotiations with TVA Director David Eli Lilienthal reached a crucial point, "there has been an interesting coincidence in threats of duplication, either from the PWA or the Chattanooga Power Board...
...national plebiscite on the fate of the forty-hour week. The deputies have no other leader to whom they can turn, and so they cannot overthrow the Daladier government. Yet in the present crisis they must not abdicate their functions. The decision which the "deux chambres" make is a crucial one: a rebuke to Daladier may save French democracy, a ratification of his actions will betray...
...then, a little farther to the East, former Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan. There is nothing particularly against Mr. Bratton, who has served in Congress, in addition to his judicial experience. Politically perhaps his appointment would not be the expedient for the President, for New Mexico is rarely a crucial state, with its three electoral votes. Denman is a weak judge in a weak circuit, according to the best legal opinion of the Pacific Coast, while Senator Schwelleubach has numerous drawbacks...
...Turkish troops who routed the Greeks. Prime Minister for twelve years, Ismet Inönü was often called a martinet, is regarded as a brilliant, stubborn bureaucrat. As chaste in his personal life as Atatürk was lecherous, he is violently nationalist. He represented Turkey at two crucial international conferences at Lausanne and Montreux, getting for Turkey virtually all she wanted. French and British statesmen railed at him but the louder their demands, the deafer Ismet Pasha became. A year ago he was forced out of the Prime Minister's office. Some said...
Since TIME prides itself on accurate reporting, it may not resent my calling its attention to certain crucial misstatements of fact in "Imperishable Thoughts" (TIME...