Word: longed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profound shock to the Government and people of the United States. Despite efforts made to solve the dispute by peaceful methods to which no reasonable objection could be offered, one Power has chosen to resort to force of arms. . . . The people and Government of Finland have a long honorable and wholly peaceful record which has won for them the respect and warm regard of the people and the Government of the United States." Called his strongest statement denouncing the policy of conquest and his strongest denunciation of "wanton disregard of law," it went beyond his appeals for peace when Hitler...
Back to Washington she hurried, to see what was happening to youth and the Dies Committee. Trouble began long ago. If the whole U. S. is considered the great house of democracy, then Martin Dies has been like a newcomer who believes he has uncovered a terrific scandal in the family. Said he rudely: Why, the place is full of Communists. Liberals hush-hushed, feared a Red-hunt, kept saying Martin Dies had made a mistake-he should be after Fascists, not Communists. But when the Dies Committee began to talk about U. S. youth, found youth organizations mixed...
...long afterward Nelson Johnson left for Peking and one of the most important posts in the U. S. diplomatic service. He carried with him the supply of little paper airplanes. For ten years since then, U. S. Far Eastern policy has ridden on little paper wings-unpredictable, steered by prankish winds-which Nelson Johnson, most of the time roaring with laughter, has launched...
...Grand Hotel in beautiful Tsingtao, the city's acting mayor rose, rustled his black silk gown, made a pretty, set speech in Chinese. An interpreter laboriously translated. Then Mr. Johnson got up, paused, bowed to hosts and guests. The audience set itself for a weary, long-winded speech which most of them would not understand. With a grin, Nelson Johnson proposed a toast and made a short speech in perfect Mandarin. From then on, he had no need of paper airplanes to make friends. Here was a white man who treated his yellow hosts as equals-as superiors, sometimes...
Texas is the only State that was ever big enough to elect a woman Governor. But Texas women are terrific. From Miriam Amanda ("Ma") Ferguson to long-legged Mary (My Heart Belongs to Daddy) Martin, the women of the Lone Star State have been justly famed for their beauty, their temper, their incorruptibility...