Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After six days and nights of meetings, high Administration officials have drafted a general plan designed to keep the stock, foreign exchange and commodity markets operating in as orderly a manner as possible should hostilities begin...
...General conclusions of the Pressure Groups table was that the only restrictions on the operation of minority lobbies should be the publicizing of their methods, not direct governmental intervention...
Except for a few spots (Denver, Chicago), preoccupation with the war question was general. Everywhere people opposed any war but sided with the Democracies if there must be one. Everywhere their belief that should Europe fight, the U. S. would be drawn in, was a fatalistic, unhappy, shoulder-shrugging belief. In few quarters was any one so cheerfully cynical as retired General Smedley D. ("Gimlet Eye") Butler of the U. S. Marines, who said at Albuquerque, N. Mex.: "After Italy and Germany get the swamps and deserts they're after, they'll all sit down and talk...
Fair President Grover Whalen unctuously gave a cue which good Navy wives hardly needed. Said he: "The general public interest comes first. . . . The advisability of [the ships'] presence elsewhere is fully realized...
Crew captain Dudley Talbot '39 disapproved of the plan in general and raised the question of what would happen to the 150's if the Council's report were adopted. The fact is that they would probably be discontinued in the course of time. More specific objections were voiced by Rosswell Brayton '39, cross country captain...