Word: imperilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That, to safeguard the investors of the $200,000,000 loan to Germany, the Powers will engage themselves not to take sanctions that will in any way imperil securities pledged to the service of the loan. And that the Powers will consider the loan entitled to absolute priority on any German resources...
...should be unwilling to participate in any political campaign at this time which would imperil the steady advance of the Progressive movement or diminish the number of true Progressives, nominally elected as Republicans and Democrats, who are now serving the public in the House, the Senate and in many of the State Governments. The ground already won must not be abandoned. . . . An analysis of the platforms adopted by the two old parties will show that the real issues have been ignored and that the candidate of either party, if elected, will go into office with no specific pledges whatsoever binding...
...conferees agreed. They reported the bill in this form. The House took it up. The Administration Republicans stood behind it. But the Democrats and west-coast Republicans were unalterably opposed. Republican Leader Longworth turned to the California delegation: "You have won your long fight for Japanese exclusion. Why imperil your victory by rejecting this report or sending it back for conference? The people of the U. S. are in favor of restricting immigration. A vote against this report is a vote against restrictive immigration as proposed...
...total up to 39,114,000,000. This was explained by the euphemistic phrase, "end-of-year settlement." It was thought possible, however, that the Banque de France would be forced eventually to raise the banknote circulation over 41,000,000,000, the present authorized figure. This would immediately imperil the gold ratio of 25% and cause a further period of depreciation...
...thing to give credit where credit is due; it is quite another to imperil one's livelihood by excessive feelings of gratitude. Dempsey and Kearns, in their blind enthusiasm, have given to Tom Gibbons the key to his one vital shortcoming. He lacked that ounce of ferocity, that ecstasy of endurance that Nuxated Iron, according to the implication of Dempsey's statement, alone can give...