Word: insular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this vox populi the voices of British women were definitely a majority, but plenty of John Bulls added hoarse acclaim. It was obvious that the insular British throng cared little for Czechoslovakia, cheered mainly because they felt they will now not have to fight the only power they have feared since Napoleon-Germany...
...Individuals reporting incomes of $5,000 or over in 1935 held $2,063,000,000 of Federal securities and $2,562,000,000 of State, local, territorial and insular securities...
Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico went to Ponce last week with 100,000 other visitors to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the U. S. Occupation. With native officials, members of the Insular National Guard, officers from the U.S.S. Enterprise and a U. S. destroyer, he mounted a stand to review a gala parade...
...former president, once Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Porto Rice, and Governor-General of the Philippines, will address Yardlings in the Lower Common Room of the Union at 7:30 o'clock this evening. It is thought that, as former chief executive of two of our insular possessions. Roosevelt's talk will concern them or American colonial policies in general...
...this country is," proceeded to read it. The bill defined the fundamental naval policy of the U. S. to be maintaining a Navy adequate to afford "protection to the coastline in both oceans at one and the same time; to protect the Panama Canal, Alaska, Hawaii and our insular possessions; . . . to guarantee our national security, but not aggression; . . . provide a defense that will keep any potential enemy away from our shores...