Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete lack of sentiment for the honor of the League of Nations and his cynical efforts to let Mussolini have his way in East Africa have been too unprincipled even for Gallic tastes. The so-called Hoare-Laval peace proposals which so nearly sent a British cabinet to its doom also did sufficient harm to Laval's already shaky reputation as an international peacemaker. Realistic France must now admit that the way to insure peace is not to let Mussolini have a free hand but rather to crush him before he and his imitators more seriously upset the order...
Election to a state senatorship from his native Vermont in 1929 spelled the doom of in 1935 of both DEmocratic and Republican machines in the state. The lieutenant governorship was his in 1931. He shortly broke with his friend, Ruby Laffoon, governor an dKentucky Coon creator. In Governor Laffoon's absence he pushed through a law requiring the selection of a public national candidate by primary, not party convention. By fortuitous and planned maneuvering, he was rollered to the governorship in November. He was not an old-line Democratic choice, but he was a Democrat and he endorsed President Roosevelt...
...Doom of Laval' Because of the difference between Britons and Frenchmen, the Laval Cabinet was not able to defend itself by the methods which the Baldwin Cabinet successfully employed. Both Cabinets had been pledged, as a whole and up to the hilt, to secure immediate peace between Italy and Ethiopia by means of negotiations taking their point of departure from The Deal of Hoare & Laval. In the House of Commons fortnight ago the Prime Minister was never in danger because his Conservative Party held an absolute majority and not even Stanley Baldwin's worst enemies ever predicted that...
...beyond question in the Chamber more than enough Leaguo-philes, Devaluationists, Socialists, Communists and people-who-simply-do-not- like-Benito Mussolini to assure the Cabinet's overthrow then & there on the first vote. LAVAL FALL TODAY EXPECTED headlined the New York Times, while the Herald Tribune echoed DOOM OF LAVAL SOUNDED...
Since Mr. Hoover made his last trip to New York ten days ago, sources close to the former President have started to predict that his hat is in the presidential ring. Needless to say, Mr. Hoover's reappearance as a candidate would doom the Republican Party to another four years of oblivion. And rightly...