Word: facings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Should Russia be able to relax vigilance in Poland, and again turn attention to the Far East," be went on, "we might ace another volte face in Japan's orientation...
...manage the Floor fight; and Borah (traditional romantic) was to have the last word. Thus the "Big Michigander,"* always safe, sound, middle-of-the-road, now stood up to the Pretorian Guard of his party-Big Business. For there was no doubt he was flying in the face of Michigan's corporate empire-General Motors. Henry Ford, however, vigorously backed his stand. To the American Legion (convening this week in Chicago) he said: "This so-called war is nothing but about 25 people and propaganda. Get them and you'll have the whole thing. They want our money...
Heartbroken and embittered, Poland's leaders faced more than the loss of their country at the railway stations in Rumania. No trains ran to the destination that they had to face. The Republic was dead. In its 20 years of life it had grown despite the fact that it had only a period between 1926 and 1929, some 30 months at most, of prosperity. The men who divided it talked of the injustice of the treaty of Versailles...
...artful characterizations and pulled out one of his greatest: "The calm confidence of a Christian with four aces." Japanese statesmen wore just such a cocksure air last week. Their spiritual complacency (the sacred mission of creating a New Order) was reinforced with all the aces and most of the face cards in the Asiatic pack...
Last fortnight the trustees heard their committee's report, discussed it for four hours. At the end, Dr. Bowman stalked out, frowning. Text of the report was withheld, but "Little John" handed newsmen a "summary." The summary saved Dr. Bowman's face but applied an unmistakable boot in the pants. Its gist...