Word: lukewarm
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...Rescue. From the beginning of the Shanghai incident Britain, who long had an alliance with Japan, and France, who has aspirations of her own for the Chinese province of Yunnan, have been lukewarm in their protests to Tokyo. But the actions of Admiral Shiosawa changed all that. In London King-Emperor George V presided at a special cabinet meeting. Two British cruisers were sent racing to Shanghai from Singapore. Artillery and infantry were ordered up from Hongkong. French troops barricaded their concession against Japan. An Italian destroyer landed 150 marines. Even Portugal did her bit. She owns the little peninsula...
...sent a delegation to Austin to urge it. With the plan already doomed to defeat through Texas' failure to adopt it. Governor Long said he would declare the Louisiana bill "null and void and inoperative." Oklahoma cotton growers agreed to follow Texas. Alabama and Mississippi were still lukewarm. North Carolina's Governor Oliver Max Gardner announced that no session of his General Assembly would be called "to completely abandon the growing of cotton." His points: 1) The trouble with U. S. cotton is not quantity but quality. 2) The South must learn to compete in the world market...
...Journal-Post had been a lukewarm observer of the gas-rate fight. Its editorials were innocuous, deprecatory. But there was sufficient natural feeling against the rival Star to cause a visible sympathy toward Doherty's side of the argument. Hence it was not embarrassingly inconsistent for the Journal-Post to become a Cities Service sounding-board...
...York, New Yorker Roosevelt might not be well-treated by Californians at the Democratic nominating convention. Most potent of all is William Randolph Hearst, whose 23 newspapers have been whooping characteristically for Coffey-Humber cancer extract. In his own State, with Tammany Hall in New York City lukewarm to him, Governor Roosevelt has need of solid support from Buffalo. Mrs. Conners' late husband was the Democratic boss of western New York. Although his namesake, her stepson, who has the heritage and power of the Buffalo Courier-Express, keeps his newspaper free from partisanship, the Conners machine still
Declared the Commission: "So long as State co-operation is required to make the Amendment effectual, adverse public opinion in some states and lukewarm public opinion in others are obstinate facts which cannot be coerced by any measures of enforcement tolerable under our polity...