Word: disarmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present it would be illusory to slow down the preparation of military material. Only tomorrow will we know whether the other peoples are ready to disarm. ... I affirm that we can have confidence in our army, and I affirm that our national defense is assured...
...President Hoover's diplomatic handyman. Miss Mary Emma Woolley returned to Mount Holyoke College, Virginia's Senator Swanson to the Capitol, neither with new glory. That left Delegate Davis as the lone survivor to carry on the U. S. job of trying to get Europe to disarm. In the months following the general conference's adjournment in July he became a sort of roving ambassador, dipping into many a diplomatic problem of primarily foreign concern...
...tide the Conference over this ugly crisis, Premier Edouard Herriot made one of those speeches which Frenchmen make so well. Keynote: "President Hoover's declaration was founded upon a noble idea." Bon mot: "In all languages the verb 'to disarm' seems to be an irregular verb...
Wehle, set out among the art galleries to select a half-dozen U. S. painters. They must be i) not too advanced for the Board of Trustees' cautious taste, 2) advanced enough to disarm newspaper accusations of over-caution, 3) sponsored by the right art dealers. Art dealers are not supposed to bid against a museum, but they have broken the rule in the past few years. Hence the Metropolitan is not friendly toward dealers, except two classes: the dignified old dealers like Macbeth and the very young, radical galleries not likely to want the same pictures...
...violence which at once subsided after Premier Tardieu got over his scare. In the Paris Avenir, for example, French Senator Billiet had accused Statesman Stimson of "trying to cash in on the situation" by using what is owed the U. S. as a bargaining weapon to induce Europe to disarm. "By these gentlemen" [from Washington], stormed Senator Billiet, "the problems of Security and Peace are treated like pigs in Chicago stockyards...