Word: eschewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minimum of 35 in 1944. Harold Stassen's first purpose in visiting Washington was to promote cooperation between his reorganized State Government and the Roosevelt Administration. His second was to tell G. 0. P. Chairman John Hamilton how to turn out the New Deal in 1940. His way: eschew attacks on "the sound social objectives" of the New Deal, promise to do more for the farmers than Franklin Roosevelt has done...
...week one of the most important treaties ever to be signed by one of the 21 American States was torpedoed by one of the smaller men in one of the smaller major American States. Hardly was the ink dry on the Pan-American Conference's unanimous resolution to eschew barter-trade deals with the European dictator nations, when small but rich Uruguay O. K.d a deal with Italy which, swapping wool for armaments, is expected to treble trade between the countries...
Whether it is performed by pacts or by a ring of Navy steel, what the U. S. hopes to accomplish at Lima is to show itself so Good a Neighbor that 120,000,000 Latin Americans will eschew the ideas and products of neighbors which the Good Neighbor wants to keep out. On the eve of this attempt, currents and undercurrents showed the progress of the neighborly race...
...Egyptian and prehistoric art) that the paintings of abstract artists were related to the contemporary steel-&-stone world, or to the art of earlier periods. Painting has a vocabulary, as does literature, but its vocabulary is color and form; and Ozenfant's advice to painters is to eschew what is fashionable, ephemeral, frivolous in their use of this vocabulary...
...metropolis' vast customs revenues from reaching Generalissimo Chiang. Chinese cable censorship at Shanghai was abolished, the Japanese not imposing this week censorship of their own. Expulsion of Chinese officials from Shanghai Govern-ment buildings was decreed. Chinese and foreigners alike were sternly warned by Japanese authorities to eschew anti-Jap-anese and pro-Communist activities of every sort...