Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked if he would join the campaign of, intensive civil disobedience which the nationalist Mahatma Gandhi is now threatening to launch against the viceroy in India, Krishnamurti replied. "I would take no part in politics. I do not think of myself as a citizen of any country." He did, however, state that he believes India fit for self-rule, assuming she is safe from foreign invasion...
...decisions were a praiseworthy echo of U. S. public opinion; but they did not change the fact that, if France does not recede from her demand, Britain will increase hers, the U. S. must increase theirs to maintain Anglo-U. S. "parity," and the net result would be to launch the London Conference on a program of increasing naval strengths all round...
...France the men of the Left are, with a few notable exceptions, relatively less experienced in Government and famed than the Poincares and Tardieus of the Centre, some contemptuous critics of the new Government called it "scarcely a Cabinet." Certain it was that ousted Tar dieu and colleagues would launch and continue one of the hottest fights in French parliamentary history in an effort to oust Briand's yesmanly Chautemps...
...President planned to eat and sleep on the Saunterer, to spend his days fishing for sailfish, kingfish, barracuda, perhaps tarpon, from small speedboats. His only contact with the shore would be a courier in a launch. Newsmen, left behind as they always are when the President plays, settled down at Long Key to amuse themselves the best they could, to welcome whatever scraps of information were daily brought in by the courier from the Saunterer...
Over $10,000,000. While $10,000,000 is enough to launch a fair-sized company, last year 38 U. S. corporations paid that much out in common dividends alone. The largest representation was from the oil industry, with seven $10,000,000 payers. In order, the complete list as compiled by the Wall Street Journal...