Word: crux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This meant that the Roosevelt good neighbor policy at last faces a severe test -and one brought to a crux by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Under the Monroe Doctrine it is not permissible for Britain to intervene with arms and protect her interests in Latin America, but the same doctrine also carries an implied obligation that the U. S. must keep Latin Americans from doing anything that might be considered provocative by Europeans. Thus if Honduras should order every Lithuanian within its borders decapitated, Lithuania would expect, while keeping the Lithuanian Navy at home, that the U. S. Navy & Marines...
...September 1935 that United's Patterson went to competitors with his appeal: "United we fly, divided we los.e money." Six months later United, Transcontinental & Western Air, American, Eastern and Pan American signed a contract, crux of which was that for 18 months none of them would invest in any four-motored air transport between the gross weights of 43,500 lb. and 68,500 lb., other than DC-4. These lines advanced Douglas comparatively little for the experiment. Nine-tenths of the expenses, which DC-4 will have to pay back by selling itself,* have come...
...four businessmen and three educators sat down before an audience of professors and students in Columbia's Milbank Chapel to thresh the matter out. Flanking Dean Russell, they sprawled in their chairs, wriggled and squirmed, stared at the ceiling, never got beyond Subdivision 3 of Topic I. Crux of the argument was not education but the "private enterprise system" v. "planned economy." At the end of a full day's talk the businessmen and schoolmen were farther apart than ever. Messrs. Houston & Co. accused the educators of threatening U. S. Liberties. Confessed Professor John L. Childs (chairman...
Last fortnight the Senate defeated an amendment to make Congressional approval by a mere majority a prerequisite of any Presidential shift. Since this point was the crux of the matter, the vote, though closer than expected, made it look as though the bill would have clear sailing. Far from silencing the opposition, however, it served to redouble it. Consequently, what had been merely a political tug-of-war last week became a nationwide commotion ranging from a series of articles by columnist Dorothy Thompson to the effect that if the bill passed "one man, once elected President, can rule this...
...from Sunday-afternoon quiet. Almost daily occurrences for the past few months have been bloody strikes, clashes between rival labor groups, bandit raids, ominous grumbles by the newly-enfranchised peons against the failure of President Lázaro Cárdenas' agrarian program and revolts by disenfranchised landlords. Crux of the trouble is Cárdenas' lack of money. With a failing credit he has had to curtail public works projects, throw thousands out of work. He has divided huge estates into small peasant holdings, but has been unable to advance the peons credit for stock farm equipment...