Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good Neighbor Policy, a great neutral bloc could be created in the Americas, assuring mutual American economic, political and military self-sufficiency if Europe and Asia should be engulfed in war. Such a creation might well be a springboard to boost the U. S. President to a place of direct influence in world politics, through the medium of belligerent boycott. Such a hope may well have inspired Franklin Roosevelt's eagerness to dash to Buenos Aires at a time when there were plenty of problems waiting for him in Washington with a new Congress only one month ahead...
...Executive Council last summer (TIME, Aug. 17). Since then the future course of the U. S. labor movement has hung in a suspense which was expected to be resolved at Tampa. Instead the convention delegates voted to: 1) affirm the Executive Council's suspension order; 2) direct the Executive Council to continue efforts at reconciliation; 3) empower the Executive Council to summon a special convention of the Federation if they should finally feel driven to adopt some "drastic procedure." This temporizing simply meant that the old leaders of Labor, adepts at dodging responsibility, were putting the next move...
...Christian Premier anticipates that rivers of Chinese blood will remain unshed at an expense in silver dollars measurably less than what it would cost China to buy the weapons she requires direct from the rapacious West. In Nanking, placing the tips of their fingers calmly together, Chinese statesmen opined to fascinated white correspondents that it would surely be the part of wisdom for European nations, now so petulantly drifting into another War and with Munitions Broker Sir Basil Zaharoff dead, to buy each other off rather than blunder into the much greater expense of fighting...
...States, 22 have direct access to tidewater. Busy though far inland are such U. S. ports as Houston, Tex., 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico; Portland, Ore., 112 miles, and Seattle, Wash., 143 miles from the Pacific; New Orleans, 107 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi...
...Atlantic City for a board meeting fortnight ago went the potent U. S. merchants who direct the policies of the National Retail Dry Goods Association. The decisions of these directors affect 5,600 N.R.D.G.A. members selling $5.000,000,000 worth of merchandise annually in the nation's department, dry goods and specialty stores. At Atlantic City the directors of the Dry Goods Association made two significant decisions, one announced immediately, one last week...