Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor John W. Bricker having cleared the way for him, Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft last week, put his hand to his brow, looked into the future (see cut) and issued his written "consent" to be designated Ohio's favorite son for 1940. Wrote he: ". . . The unpleasant job which lies before the next President of the United States is such that no sensible man could be eager to assume it. Unless the whole present tendency of the Government is redirected, we cannot long maintain financial solvency or free enterprise or even individual liberty in the United States...
...British Ambassador, slipped into a light blue frock which was a perfect match for her husband's blue official limousine, and drove with him to Foreign Minister Arita's official residence. There, among flocks of photographers, suave little Hachiro Arita shook Sir Robert's hand, took him upstairs, sat him down on the opposite side of a desk no bigger than a card table...
...influence even with the Japanese who use them. But Puppet Cheng was shrewd, forceful, humorous; Chinese loved him, foreigners respected him, and his employers listened to his advice. Losing such a trump infuriated the Japanese. Much more so did the British refusal, on the ground of insufficient evidence, to hand over four men suspected of the murder. British Ambassador to China Sir Archibald Clark Kerr considered the case more important than the comfort of British nationals in Tientsin, and so the Japanese declared the blockade...
...German pre-War influence in the Brazilian Army was still strong. In 1925 he was recalled and soon sent to Syria to help put down the Druse revolt, a suppression which he later succeeded in accomplishing alone with considerable bloodshed on the part of the Druses. He was on hand when French planes and artillery wiped out 1,456 civilians in the native quarters of Damascus, thus proving that Maurice Gamelin had no particular interest in inflicting minimum losses on his country's enemies. He was made commander of France's Army of the Levant, then brought home...
...surprised to find how much a king remains a king. . . . Everybody knows that the King's powers have been curtailed, but that does not seem to make much difference. ... A King like N'jiké is a great stabilizing force in a society assailed on every hand by change ... in fact, takes the place of a religion to his people. He is not unaware of the fact. He does his part, and I think he feels his responsibilities...