Word: landed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From America's point of view we are insane to think that the time to oppose the Germans-if we ever are going to-is when they land armed forces in this hemisphere. If things go on as they have been for the last three years, the Germans will never have to land a man. Even Napoleon had to admit, in the end, that ideas are all-powerful, and the ideas of Nazidom are penetrating throughout South America. They have the prestige of success, and the democracies offer -well, what do they offer...
...President of the United States last week received a petition from the president of the American Federation of Labor and a committee, seeking his intercession to restore prevailing wages for union men on WPA. Contemplating the disorders being indulged in by their followers throughout the land, the President of the U. S. answered them by dictating a statement to his press conference: "You cannot strike against the Government...
...announcing this drive, Mr. Arnold devoted only a short, gentle paragraph to labor unions. But last week, with the A. F. of L.'s building trades strikes on WPA full blown throughout the land, Attorney General Murphy declared: "We will expose racketeering and drive it to cover by prosecution...
...Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, wants to convince Adolf Hitler that Britain will allow him no further land grabs, one sure way to do it would be to give a Cabinet job to the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, M.P. for Epping. For the past decade Mr. Churchill has been to the British man-in-the-street the personification of Empire do-or-die, and more recently as the British statesman most violently opposed to appeasing "the Huns." Accordingly he is one of the Führer's pet aversions. Several times Herr Hitler has gone...
...Japanese have taken the other side of the Mongol class struggle and lavished gifts and titles on the hereditary princes who have fled from Outer Mongolia. Some day, the Japanese tell them, there will be an independent Mongol confederation and the princes dispossessed by revolution will regain their land and power. In return, when the time comes for war with Russia, they are expected to lead a counterrevolution in Outer Mongolia and help fight...