Word: lukewarm
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Appointed Secretary to the Committee for Foreign Affairs by Congress, Paine's first run-in with Congress occurred when lukewarm members resented his interference with Tory maneuvers. His second disagreement was more serious, lost him his job. Under a secret understanding with France, Louis XVI turned over to the wily courtier Beaumarchais 1.000,000 livres, which was to reach America in gold and gunpowder. But when the commercial agent for Congress, Silas Deane, arrived in Paris to buy munitions, Beaumarchais said nothing about the money, arranged instead through a dummy company of his own to exchange munitions for tobacco...
...friendship with Germany, but we feel as though we are running after a fly with a hatchet if the agreement is aimed only against the Communist International. Japan need not stand isolated. Let Japan make friends as fast as she can. But it would be better not to make lukewarm friends at the expense of making red-hot enemies...
Lest an erroneous impression prevail, I am impelled to direct your attention to the paragraph in your issue of Nov. 9, p. 26 which includes this statement: "Despite lukewarm support from Chicago's Kelly-Nash machine, Democratic Governor Henry Horner piled up a 293,000 lead in Cook County...
These preballot box rumors perhaps may be the basis for such statements that the Democratic organization gave Governor Horner only "lukewarm support." Like many such pre-election rumors, this is without basis in fact...
Illinois. Despite lukewarm support from Chicago's Kelly-Nash machine, Democratic Governor Henry Horner piled up a 293,000 lead in Cook County, showed surprising strength downstate to win re-election over young Republican Charles Wayland ("Curly") Brooks...