Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China realizes she must fight for herself now and she will stand firm and stop Japan's advances," declared Colonel H. H. Lin, heroic defender of China's Woosung forts during the fighting around Shanghai during February, 1932. In a special interview with the CRIMSON, Colonel Lin yesterday boldly stated that China will fight desperately for Manchuria...
Many minor details have been omitted from this sketchy summary of the above reforms, and the whole may justly be charged with superficiality. But the broad proposal stand upon firm ground. Through them alone can the "Superimposition" of the Tutorial System on the present Course system be corrected. It the next few weeks the CRIMSON will discuss in greater detail the major points at issue...
Attorney General Mitchell, one Democrat who will get no job from the new President, will return to St. Paul, rejoin his law firm...
Postmaster General Brown, back in his Toledo law firm, will keep the political kettle...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt had no idea what the New Deal was which the Democratic nominee promised. Many doubted if even Mr. Roosevelt knew the details of that New Deal. Perhaps his most "satisfactory" and revealing speech was on railroads at Salt Lake City where the candidate indicated a firm intention of solving that major public problem (see p. 41). But even in that address he promised all things to all men-lower rates for shippers, good wages for employes, safe returns for investors (including the Mormon Church, a heavy holder of railroad bonds...