Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate, white-crested Hiram Johnson, the California Republican who bolted his party to campaign for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, shouted that the U. S. has everything to lose, nothing to gain by entering the War Debt parleys which Mr. Roosevelt specifically approves. Flaying the British Chancellor, Senator Johnson accused cold, cultured Neville Chamberlain of possessing what no member of the historic House of Chamberlain was ever ashamed to have-a superiority complex...
...gain the independence now definitely in sight the Philippine Legislature must, within the next year, call a convention to frame a republican constitution. If this document is satisfactory to the U. S. President, Filipinos will vote it up or down. If they accept, a ten-year probationary period under an intermediate government follows, during which U. S. tariff and immigration walls gradually rise against Philippine products and people. On the tenth July 4, the Stars-&-Stripes come down all over the islands except over U. S. naval stations and military reservations. Meantime, the U. S.-which freely admitted after...
...effective guarantee that has been established for the maintenance of peace in the Far East" with "universal advantage thereby accruing to the peoples of the world" including "Chinese themselves." ¶ That Japan constitutes herself the defender of the Far East against Soviet encroachment, for "should the Red movement . . . gain in strength as a result of Chino-Russian rapprochement that would be a serious menace to peace in the Orient, against which Japan must certainly be on guard...
...fault of their own, are unable in the present emergency to provide for the payment of their debts is utterly destructive of the interests of debtor and creditor alike and if this process is allowed to take its usual course misery will be suffered by thousands without substantial gain to their creditors...
...contested, throughout, especially in the first half, however. Vermont, led by Palmer, who was high scorer for the night, managed to build up a scant lead of 12 to 11 at the half but Harvard came back with a strong attack at the start of the second period to gain the lead, which it held to the end by virtue of its good defensive play...