Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great Adventure. All this but served to pave the way for Franklin Roosevelt's arrival in Buenos Aires. Unlike Dr. Saavedra, Mr. Hull does not overshadow his President. The U. S. part in the conference at Buenos Aires will certainly be cut to fit Franklin Roosevelt's plans. The story by Arthur Krock of President Roosevelt's plans to invite Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and other chiefs of States to a diplomatic conference (TIME, Sept. 7) was almost too fantastic even to be a trial balloon. But observers know there is no fantasy in assuming that Franklin Roosevelt...
...achieve a lasting peace, the curbing of munitions makers and limitation of capital investments in foreign enterprises must be accomplished. If Europe had seen fit to intervene by force in Italy's rape of Ethiopia, the United States might easily have been involved in the horrors of continual bloodshed, through the cries for protection from large financial companies, whose foreign investments were being threatened...
...college students; its duty, like that of any newspaper, is to report the college news in an unbiassed fashion. However, if it happens to be the policy of the paper to devote considerable space to national or state news, it should be allowed to report it as it sees fit, always provided that it handles only material that it knows about. Perhaps not quite as important a function, but certainly one that cannot be overlooked, is that exercised by the editorial columns in reflecting student opinion. If this is to be stifled and strangled by bigoty and short-sightedness...
...foreign investment was in fact buying by U. S. citizens through foreign banking houses, whose margins are lower than those demanded in the U. S. But discussed with perfect seriousness was the possibility of a ban on importations of investment capital, something which no nation has ever seen fit to do in all history...
...80th floor of the Empire State Building four miles away. By night the glare of their floodlights keeps housewives awake in neighboring suburbs. Before next spring. Flushing Meadows will be ready for the installation of water, gas, electricity arid drainage. By spring of 1938 they will be meadows indeed, fit for the Fair buildings...