Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recent expropriations have forced Secretary of State Cordell Hull to face the question of whether the U. S. could continue to spare the rod without spoiling the neighbor. He decided on a verbal spanking, denied that it must be forcible...
Fascism, meanwhile, was putting on a somewhat pip-squeak show in Rome last week, necessitated by the fact that the Italian-Hungarian-Austrian Protocols have lost one leg of this never very imposing diplomatic tripod. Only thing to do was to make a face-saving announcement that Italy and Hungary now constitute a bipod as faithful as ever to the Fascist cooperative spirit, and for this purpose to Rome last week went Hungary's economic strongman, Banker-Premier Béla Imrédy, who had never before met Mussolini...
Taking this at its face value, thin-lipped Cinema Tsar Will Hays replied: "Motion-picture producers, wholesale distributors and leading exhibitors of the nation will generally welcome the prospect of a comprehensive, fair and conclusive endeavor to clarify the application of existing laws to the trade customs inherent in the development of the motion-picture industry...
This about-face resulted from no change in New Deal feeling. It was ordered in spite of Franklin Roosevelt by potent Paul McNutt. After a series of 10,000-mile telephone calls, High Commissioner McNutt decided that his own ambitions were more important than the President's purge. Defeat through division this autumn would weaken his machine. Van Nuys's charges of scandal might sully the fair McNutt name. The renomination of Frederick Van Nuys became an incident in the plans of McNutt...
...this turn of events, hinted at other reasons in addition to the pinched economic situation: 1) Recent restoration to power of aristocratic army leaders who, dreading Japanese adoption of Western ways, have from the start opposed the meet and its concurrent influx of Occidentals; 2) Fear of "losing face" in view of the threatened boycott of the Games by Great Britain, Switzerland, the Scandinavian countries, and probably others. Tokyo said it might ask for the Games...