Word: iota
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...still in China finishing its voluminous report on the invasion, preparatory to taking it to Geneva. No official announcement was made but every one felt sure that the report would hold Japan guilty of aggression. The Japanese Government had not the slightest intention of modifying its Manchurian policy one iota but it was burningly anxious to know just how far the U. S. and Europe would back their "moral indignation." European reports were reassuring. British editors were as indignant as those in the U. S. but British statesmen kept very silent, anxious not to endanger their friendly relations with Japan...
...Europe in 1924. He did nothing to stop the campaign of intolerance and bigotry against Alfred E. Smith. If he did not give a hand to that rabble, he stood silently on the side lines as they went by." Mr. Wardell charged that his opponent "never contributed one iota to the Democracy of California...
Declared Banker Mitchell: "The holdings of foreign securities in New York banks are in no case enough to influence their determination in regard to debt cancellation one iota. . . . I don't believe in cancellation as it is generally spoken of. I'm inclined to believe that, here and there, it will be determined that there should be some scaling. Very often as a banker we take a credit we could force the full payment of but get more out of by some other course...
...flowing testimony of Wet witnesses. Idaho's Dry Senator Borah dropped in but, after hearing the audience applaud a particularly violent denunciation of the 18th Amendment, hastily withdrew. He, like others, knew that all the Wet noise would not sway a Dry Congress into relaxing the law one iota...
...boomed Commissioner Archibald MacNeillage. "They delight in trampling it under foot. Remember that the American Ambassador, Mr. C. G. Dawes, was first received by our Labor Prime Minister on the Sabbath-day! So far as the world knows, the great interest of world peace has not been advanced one iota by that Sabbath-day meeting...