Word: expansionist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rumania, generally picked as the next victim for Stalin's expansionist program, Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu soft-soaped the Soviet Union: "We are convinced of the similarity existing between the Soviet's affirmed policy of peace and the Rumanian policy of independence." Earlier, George Tatarescu, the new pro-Ally Premier, made a bid for democratic sympathy when he promised to lift the hitherto strict Rumanian press censorship by allowing newspapers to give vent to "impartial criticism and the voicing of grievances against the Government...
...these, astute Vasile Stoica, Ambassador to Turkey, had most to contribute to the question which last week preoccupied all Eastern European statesmen: Will the Soviet Union, fresh from sharing in the partition of Poland and successful in extending "spheres of influence" over the Baltic States, now attempt similar expansionist moves in the Balkans...
Effeminate, bookish, a graduate of the University of Nashville at 14, William Walker was successively surgeon, lawyer, journalist before he was 29. In that year, having absorbed as much as he could hold of the expansionist propaganda then parading as the "manifest destiny'' of the U. S., he decided to colonize the Mexican state of Sonora. Short of men and food, still shorter on experience, the expedition lasted through seven months of skirmishes, mutinies, desertions, marauding and general futility. Relieved to get out alive, Walker limped across the U. S. border with 34 survivors, surrendered...
...last year. Included in the 1935 figure was a $1,564,000 profit from sale of two tankers "not needed in the company's service." Continental's Daniel James Moran is one of the few U. S. oilmen who is not a confirmed expansionist. In his report, which he signs "Dan Moran," he noted: "During 1935, the company's marketing program centered on improving marketing methods to the exclusion of expansion. An analysis of sales at the beginning of 1935 caused the company to discard unprofitable business which amounted to more than 30,000,000 gallons annually...
Still jumpy, the Cabinet decided to appease any patriotic assassins who might still be lurking about by proving just how indomitably expansionist the present government of Japan really is. Fresh programs of army, navy and air expenditures were announced which will shoot Japan's budgetary expenditures for the coming year up to 2½ billion yen-almost twice the estimated budgetary receipts. As usual Japanese bankers and businessmen will be forced to "balance" the budget by absorbing a huge bond issue, while Japan's warriors extend their sphere of conquest. To give Tokyo patriots something concrete to think...