Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moses Smith here presented my wife with that beautiful basket of flowers, I heard my wife say in response to a request, 'Oh. I never make speeches.' I never knew that before." The crowd guffawed. Mrs. Roosevelt looked flustered. Continued the President, with a grin and lift of his eyebrows: "Well, live and learn, live and learn...
Exactly one hour after the League Assembly had voted to lift Sanctions from Italy and refuse succor to Ethiopia, Herr Greiser marched into a session of the League Council and with calculated insolence of manner addressed in German the luckless Council President, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden whose handsome young face was soon beet-red. In unprintably coarse language Herr Greiser attacked Mr. Lester to his face on personal grounds and demanded a free hand in Danzig for Nazis to administer their brand of "law and order...
Strengtheners v. Modifiers. South Africa's clean-cut Charles Theodore te Water alone demanded pressing on with Sanctions against Italy, saying that to lift them "will shatter for generations all international confidence and all hope of realizing world peace...
...Assembly can only "decide" so momentous a point by unanimity and to the last the Ethiopians resisted all pressure to make them join in voting to lift Sanctions. It was therefore necessary to "resolve" to lift Sanctions which could be done by a simple majority. In the final count Ethiopia alone voted to keep Sanctions on. Notwithstanding all South Africa's brave talk, she abstained from voting, as did Chile, Venezuela, and Panama. Every other League State represented in the Assembly last week (44) "resolved" to end Sanctions. This week the Sanctions Committee set July 15 as the official...
Whipping Boy No. 2 proved more recalcitrant. Although the Federal Government has given many a lift to students and teachers through relief projects, it has so far refused direct subsidies to schools. Last week NEA voted to ask for an immediate $100,000,000 Federal annuity to U. S. schools with no strings attached, to be upped to a maximum of $300,000,000. Delegates were enthusiastic, if mystified, when Secretary Willie A. Lawson of the Arkansas Education Association declared: "We think that a government which . . . refused to consider permanent Federal aid is using...