Word: distrusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during the past two administrations. Dollar diplomacy and a threatening "big stick" attitude on the part of the United States have been discarded as unprofitable, fortunately for both continents. The voyage to Buenos Aires, it may be hoped, will signalize the conquest of the last vestige of hate and distrust which South and Central American countries still harbor as the result of the traditional aggressiveness of their "big brother...
...which centers about control of the "hiring halls"--the clearing houses for all maritime employment, the unions would play a more sensible hand by keeping their strike from assuming gigantic proportions. A recurrence of the terrifying tactics of the general strike of 1934 can only breed the fear and distrust of the people as a whole and alienate the opinion of those who might logically support labor's claims. The principles for which the unions are crusading, namely fair treatment in hiring employees and decent wages and living conditions for seamen, are as sound as Gibraltar...
...again at the age of 42. Not until the Sons of Liberty grew strong in the 1760's did he find an outlet for his talents. Democratic, at ease with commoners, he was at home in the turbulent groups of shipyard workers, mechanics, laborers, that were viewed with distrust by most men of his class...
...Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes), predicting the extinction of Western civilization by the yellow race within 300 years, was written in an unheated Berlin flat. Published just after the War, it brought him wealth and an international reputation. A onetime National Socialist hero because of his distrust of Communism and non-Aryan races, Spengler soon alienated party leaders by his strong independence of spirit, his refusal to turn his talents to Jew-baiting...
...most celebrated child alive to be in private life also the most objectionable sample of precocity, weight for age, who ever gave sharp answers to her betters. Such is not the case. Disappointing as the case may be to child psychologists of certain schools and persons judicious enough to distrust the customary vaporings of cinema fan magazines, Hollywood chatter columnists and professional pressagents, Shirley Temple is actually a peewee paragon who not only obeys her mother, likes her work, rarely cries, is never sick and keeps her dresses clean but even likes raw carrots, eats spinach with enthusiasm and expresses...