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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand in case of war abroad. Under it, embargoes of war material would no longer be mandatory. The President would have broad discretion to regulate U. S. exports, travel by U. S. citizens, dealing in combatants' securities, etc., etc. Passage of the Bloom bill by the House would mean little, even in diluted form. In the Senate a band of 21 isolationists led by Idaho's Borah and North Dakota's Nye promised to fight this Roosevelt brand of Neutrality all summer if necessary...
...catcher. A long glass tank is filled with such subaqueous décor as a fireplace, typewriters with funguslike rubber keys, rubber telephones, a man made of rubber ping-pong bats, a mummified cow, a supine rubber woman painted to resemble the keyboard of a piano. Whatever this may mean as art, the exhibitors did not dilly-Dali over it. Into the tank they plunged living girls, nude to the waist and wearing little Gay Nineties girdles and fishnet stockings. Swimming, grimacing, doing the Suzy Q, milking the cow, playing the "piano," these Lady Godivers, seen at close range...
...Japanese still do not dare declare an end to the undeclared war, for such a declaration would mean great loss of Face...
Member Kirkwood began to welsh when he complained that farming on Jura would mean giving up Parliament. Replied Lady Astor: "Nothing is further from my mind than to be responsible for depriving Parliament of your services...
...they might not bring an end to Chinese resistance. Chinese national consciousness is becoming a hardy plant, and there are now other good Chinese generals, notably Li Tsung-jen and Pai Chung-hsi of the crack Kwangsi army, who might carry on. But the death of Chiang might mean a short period of struggle for power within China. With such a struggle for power going on, Japan could terminate hostilities without loss of Face...