Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dissenting opinion in the A.A.A. case is being hailed by New Dealers as a heroic statement of the liberal creed and a judicial vindication of their ill starred policies. But upon close examination the opinion is neither heroic nor Judicial, and from the first paragraph on expresses a fear and trembling one hardly expects to hear from the Supreme Court. Justice Stone appears far less worried about the constitutionality of the A.A.A. than he is about some imagined danger of the conservative wing of the court rocking the boat amid the troubled waters of modern politics...
...abroad, namely to forbid export of arms and materials to all warring nations alike. The State Department felt acutely that executive discretion will be necessary lest the U. S. by indiscriminate embargoes put weaker nations at such a disadvantage that international bullies should be encouraged to attack them. Fear of Congress that flexible neutrality would give the State Department a handle to draw the U. S. into war was firmly set against the State Department's fear that an inflexible act would provoke wars in which the U. S. might be involved. Such a deadlock promised to inflame...
...League Covenant," dryly observed Pierre Laval, "I have not hesitated to pledge France's aid to Great Britain on the sea and land and in the air, if she is attacked by Italy in the course of application of sanctions. . . . Why should I not frankly confess my fear and dread of an incident of the sort which history often produces, an incident which could drag France into a war which I have done everything to avert. The more rigorous the obligations imposed upon France by the League become, the more I have felt bound to endeavor to put through...
...mainland, nobody had time to pay much attention to the fugitive Gómezes. No matter how their condition may improve, a people cannot live in physical fear for nearly three decades without an ultimate explosion. Venezuelans were having it last week, in full measure. Rioting swept every city in the land, pro-Gómez newspapers were wrecked, the homes of Gómez adherents were looted, at least 50 people were assassinated. The most important killing was that of General Eustoquio Gómez, a cousin of the old Dictator, who as Governor of the State of Carabobo...
...flowed as the Lindberghs were more or less prominent on the nation's front pages. Since the kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., Federal, State and local police had guarded the Lindberghs unremittingly, traced some of the threats, made a few arrests. Still the famed family lived in fear. Gratified were they when threats died down as excitement over Bruno Richard Hauptmann's arrest and conviction diminished. Then came two deciding events. Last month New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman caused a fresh Press furor over Murderer Hauptmann by paying a midnight visit to his death...