Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition Great Britain would grant complete independence to the Dominion of Canada. This last act would be a nice gesture of respect for our Monroe Doctrine and remove one more foreign nation from the Western Hemisphere...
...National Congress-the first important Indian to go to China since Rabindranath Tagore 15 years ago. Rumors of Japanese penetration in India have worried China; and the friendship of another downtrodden native race had feeling if not cash in it. Pandit Nehru received the biggest welcome ever accorded a foreign visitor. Over 200 officials and representatives of public organizations welcomed him at the pebbly island in the Yangtze which serves Chungking as an airport. Up through streets half-bombed, half-bedecked with banners & posters the Chinese drove their guest. As if purposely accentuating his sympathy for China, the Japanese sent...
...Conn., the topflight women golfers of the U. S. could look the menfolk square in the eye. Redheaded, 21-year-old Patty Berg, No. 1 woman golfer, was unable to defend her title because of a recent appendectomy. But there were 198 other girls (including the champions of two foreign countries) who kept the galleries beguiled. Outstanding were...
...last year almost 3,000,000 new radios were sold, but fewer than 1,000,000 were the Reich-backed People's Radios, geared to local reception. Of the rest, despite Nazi frowning on broadcasts from abroad, 1,500,000 were all-wave sets designed to receive foreign short-wave broadcasting, bringing the number of all-wave receivers in Germany...
...prophets were not dopesters and gossips. So many well-informed foreign correspondents were aware of the situation (TIME, Nov. 14, 1938, et seq.) that it looked as if the only people who had not known just what was going to happen were the statesmen of England and France. Soon after Munich, Gilbert Redfern, Warsaw correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph, predicted: "Within a year or so we will see a Russian-German tie-up, or Russia will retire to her fastnesses," and the New York Time's Walter Duranty wrote: "There is no reason to believe that Russia would...