Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might-be or has-been, Key Pittman last week ran his committee straight down the track of what-is. He gave only a minimum of lip-service to Franklin Roosevelt's desire for a return to the indefinable fog of international law -where an energetic President could easily get lost from Congress' view. Then he set himself to his dual task: the drafting of a bill which would provide national security insurance against involvement in war, and the spiking of his opponents' guns...
...modify the Johnson Act, one of the most sacred of U. S. cows, which bars loans to any government still in default on its World War I debts. But Key Pittman, a wily strategist, knew that in winning a political fight you must ask for twice what you can get, then compromise for half (TIME, Oct. 2); and that the loser must have at least something to take home. He let the thunder roar, knowing he was on solid ground: go-day credits are usually regarded as equivalent to cash. But Cali fornia's resolute old Isolationist, Hiram Johnson...
...Because: "We all went out in the last war to abolish all former diplomatic games of seven-toed pete with deuces wild. . . . With smiles and smirks our associates accepted our childish enthusiasms-while they took our money and our lives. . . . We were told we were going to get international decency. Boy, look at the damn thing...
Boss O'Leary is not yet engaged, loves to dance and ride horseback. But she takes her duties seriously, says she will get the women of her district together immediately to see what can be done about improving playgrounds and housing...
These apocalyptic questions boiled down to one-what would Italy get if she backed up her peace proposal with a threat to go in with Germany and Russia? That a peace proposal was imminent few doubted. That Britain and France would accept it few believed. Britons, believing that its main purpose was to make Britain appear to be guilty of continuing the war, accepted its challenge beforehand. Said Winston Churchill, in a speech on war aims that observers believed made him a real candidate for Prime Minister...