Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commands of their officers." Two of these officers committed harakiri, but the rest were alive and well last week. Every Japanese knew that the Radical-Militarists were still assassination-minded in case the new Cabinet of hard, spry little onetime Foreign Minister Koki Hirota does not give Japan the drastic social and economic overhaul which they demand...
This, if taken at face value, might presage a most radical socio-economic New Deal. Japanese businessmen hoped they found a possible joker favoring the status quo. The declaration, having first harshly pledged drastic changes, then softly added, "The Government will avoid needless haste...
Speaking in London for the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia) Rumanian Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu urged immediate and drastic League Sanctions. These had not yet been asked by the Belgians and the French, for M. Flandin had based his whole policy last week on patience, asking his British friends to read what they had signed. As Squire Baldwin still hesitated and His Majesty's Government appeared to desire that France should join in paying Adolf Hitler's price for sending a delegation to London, the French Foreign Minister finally said...
...natural object for New Deal reform, the basing point was thoroughly damned by the Federal Trade Commission in a special study in 1934. A special NRA report urged modifications so drastic that they would mean virtual abolition of the system. Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler is earnestly trying to end the basing point once & for all with a bill introduced last month...
...drastic action against Germany will be taken at the prospective meeting of the League of Nations Council, in Professor Langer's opinion. A vehement protest will very likely be made, but he expects the League to shy away from sanctions because of their probable ineffectiveness on Germany, which is a relatively self-sufficient country and is much less dependent on foreign trade for necessities than Italy...