Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris mailboxes vexed correspondents popped dire franc predictions. These, unopened, safely reached London, Brussels, Amsterdam. Everyone knew anyhow that gold was again in flight from France in the nearest thing to panic since last spring. Three successive uppings by the Bank of France of its discount rate failed to halt the flow. Instead it quickened. The radical parties opposing M. Laval redoubled what they call their politique du pire-tactics "to make everything worse & worse." As the Chamber of Deputies met after a five-month recess last week both the Socialist Populaire and the Radical Socialist L'Oeuvre predicted...
...uncivilized region natives had set upon the King of King's august Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Ghaffar Khan Djalal on the ground that his car was "speeding"-the natural right of a great Khan. As she should beat any dog of an Iranian policeman who dared to halt the Khan, his wife was understood to have taken a crack at Elkton Town Officer Jacob Biddle. Iranians boiled with indignation at reports that the native Biddle not only failed to recognize the diplomatic status and immunity of His Excellency but exclaimed in the Maryland vernacular, "Aw, this...
...third point in the program consists of obtaining signatures to teh People's Mandate. This is a petition being circulated in 44 countries of the world, demanding of the governments immediate halt in preparations for war, subsequent disarmament, use of the existing machinery for peace, and the establishment of economic treaties...
...Honolulu some of this cargo was distributed during the night's halt. More was added in the shape of mail, ice-cream, Thanksgiving dinners, odds & ends, and 14 Pan American employes to be carried to Midway and Wake. Off at dawn, the Clipper, loaded almost to capacity, flew on to Midway, landed within one minute of schedule in time for fishing, baseball in the afternoon. Next day, the ship lost a day by crossing the international date line to Wake for another night's layover before heading for Guam. Thus rested, the crew remained fresh as the long...
...Overlate to stop a war, the Government ranged itself at the eleventh hour behind the Covenant at Geneva. Even now its action has been slow and halt hearted. While paying lip service to the League, it is planning a vast, expensive rearmament program which will only stimulate similar programs elsewhere. Government is a danger to the peace of the world and to the security of this nation...