Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed the $1,156,000,000 bill to expand and rearm the naval forces. C. Sent to conference a bill authorizing addition of one judge to the Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh Circuit Courts of Appeals; appointment of 15 new district judges; and addition of one associate justice to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, three to the District of Columbia District Court...
Taierhchwang--Chinese expand their great victory in South Shantung Province--Thousands of Japanese killed--The Chinese reported besieging trapped Japanese garrison in the provincial capital, Tsinan-Fu--Japanese reported rushing reinforcements from north and west...
...Under the Homestead Act of 1862, any boy could go to the West and acquire a home and a chance to earn a living for the mere asking. Today these opportunities are gone. We can no longer expand to the West. Hopes and aspirations of young America are piling up behind the dam of economic circumstances. No such economic barrier can long survive the pressure which increases with each rising hour. Let us open the floodgates to young America, by legislating this Homestead Act of 1938. The American Youth Act is the new frontier...
...popular conceptions, that Japan is on the verge of a revolution, and that Fascism is on the upgrade there, he branded as false. Almost unanimously the people believe that the land of the rising sun must "expand or explode"; any quarrel the people have to pick is with the means, not with the end. There is no more Fascism than in any nation at war, he said...
Unlike Japan, censorship in the U.S.S.R. is a very real factor. The approved method of gathering news, Hindmarsh said, is for a foreign correspondent to take a brief "rumor story" relayed to him from his home office, expand it into a long "dispatch," and take it down to the censor. If he approves it, the correspondent throws it away. If he disapproves, the correspondent knows the rumor is true. If he merely mumbles, the reporter has to guess...