Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what was this high-sounding talk to lead to? Just vague expressions of good will, a meaningless passing of the peace pipe? The conference was not 48 hours old before it became specific as well as pacific...
...heart of the question which Congress is now going to debate is whether the repeal or the retention of the embargo on arms is the more likely to lead the United States into the war. It is evident that it is impossible for the advocates of either policy to prove their case conclusively. . . . The best that Congress can hope to do now is to adopt that policy which, on a cool estimate of the probabilities as we know them today, seems the least likely to have consequences which will put us in a difficult and dangerous position later...
...Repeal of the arms embargo now would make the Germans very angry and possibly lead them to take reprisals against the U. S. (against U. S. shipping, for example), thereby drawing the U. S. into war. Rebuttal: The Nazis have been and always will be angry with the U. S. whenever it suits them. They are just as likely to take reprisals against the U. S. in spite of the arms embargo, for from a military standpoint, it is just as important to them to shut off the Allies from food and the materials from which arms are made...
Thus if the U. S. could take over the markets dropped by the belligerents it could practically double its exports to Latin America. The only competitor still free to bid against the U. S. for the market is Japan, and the U. S. has a big lead on her. For not only has the U. S. long since entrenched itself as the No. 1 Latin American trader, but Cordell Hull's Good Neighbor policy and reciprocal trade agreements have begun to persuade Latin America to believe that Dollar Diplomacy is dead...
...participation in the conference of several faculty members, Francis T. Spaulding, professor of Education, will chair a session on progress in the wider use of schools for recreation. Nature activities will hear the views of Donald Wyman, horticulturist at Arnold Arboretum. James A. Michener, professor of Education will lead a discussion on "Relation of Recreation to Democracy," while G. Wallace Woodworth '24, instructor in Music will lead the session on music...