Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present aspirants for the nomination, that it might become indispensable to renominate me as the only means of restoring harmony, and of preserving harmony in the next election, and that it might become my duty to yield.". . . They urged also the condition of the country being engaged in a foreign [Mexican] war, and their conviction that I would be the strongest man of the party. I still adhered to my often expressed determination to retire at the close of my present term...
...Decided flatly (but privately) not to recall from Russia U. S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt, but left the matter on a 24-hour basis. Franklin Roosevelt firmly believes that in his foreign policy he has made but one bad blunder: withdrawal one year ago of U. S. Ambassador to Germany Hugh Wilson. Mr. Roosevelt regards Ambassadors as reporters, doesn't like the second-hand reports now coming out of Berlin to the U. S. via London and Paris. The Kremlin, he well knows, would not care a fingersnap if Mr. Steinhardt were recalled, and then...
...probably not more than two former Communist sympathizers; the Y.C.L., although voting as a bloc, failed to capture the Student Union. While they did well in the elections, the Communists took an apparent beating on the Russo-Finnish question, when their blanket support of the Soviet Union's foreign policy was snowed under by indignant liberals. The liberal majority proceeded to condemn both Russian aggression and the actions of those groups which hope to use Russia's actions as an excuse to rush the United States into war. In the same breath this majority voted for a rider which opposed...
Prize-winners in their own countries, two foreign novels will not likely be so well prized by U. S. readers...
...committee was appointed to consult with rowing authorities in an effort to carry on these trials despite the cancellation of the Games, and perhaps to extend the regatta to include foreign crews...