Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not have you think for a single minute that there is permanent disaster in these Drought regions, or that the picture I saw meant depopulating these areas. No cracked earth, no blistering sun, no burning wind, no grasshoppers are a permanent match for the indomitable American farmers and stockmen and their wives and children...
...Heaven, His Majesty the Tenno or Emperor Hirohito of Japan. Last week to London from Tokyo flashed a stiff diplomatic note replying to that in which Britain last July 15 announced that she has "invoked the escalator clause" of the London Naval Treaty. In plain words this meant that because Adolf Hitler has torn up the Treaty of Versailles and is building Germany a forbidden navy, Stanley Baldwin has torn up the limitations on British naval building in the London Treaty. Unlike Herr Hitler, Mr. Baldwin has a perfect right to do this, as have President Roosevelt and Emperor Hirohito...
...will go ahead . . . with winning out through a system of careful, long-range planning. . . . You are not licked." That morning President Roosevelt had got the news of Secretary of War Dern's death, promptly shifted his schedule to attend the funeral in Salt Lake City this week. That meant dropping Minnesota and Wisconsin from his itinerary, postponing for two days his conference in Des Moines this week with seven Western governors, including Kansas' Landon...
...orders did not come. Slowly it became apparent that Comrade Litvinoff had not meant quite what Franklin Roosevelt thought he had in closing their recognition deal. Russia, it seemed, did not propose to pay off old debts after all, proposed to buy U. S. goods only if the U. S. gave her unlimited credit and a long, long time to pay. Plans for the million-dollar Embassy were abandoned, the idle Embassy staff was pared to the bone. Climax came last summer when President Roosevelt was forced to transmit through Ambassador Bullitt a sharp note charging the Russian Government with...
...noted that while joy was the German reaction last year when the Treaty of Versailles was torn up and the Fatherland given a one-year conscript Army (TIME, June 3, 1935), the two-year decree of last week sobered German faces as the people wondered if this latest move meant that their Realmleader has decided to lead them...