Word: meets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Solution: Leave things alone. "At $80,000,000,000 [national income] the income from the present taxes will be sufficient to meet expenditures on the present scale-and actually to reduce our relief appropriations...
Next morning more than 50 male and female reporters trooped into the austere British Embassy, so many that the Rt. Hon. Sir Ronald Lindsay had to meet them in the spacious entrance hall. Standing on the staircase obviously frightened, His Excellency was made no more comfortable by the activities of extremely irreverent photographers...
Should American men bow from the waist when they meet the King? Sir Ronald thought they might do as he did when meeting the President-"behave in a simple and respectful manner. I certainly make him a bow. Whether it comes from the waist or not I don't know...
...this part of disgruntled Mr. Anderson's indictment, B.R.T.'s Whitney had a telling answer: union assets since 1935 have increased from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000, membership by 17,695 to 133,969. Brother Whitney had his delegates oust Brother Anderson, vote to meet hereafter in cities "whose newspapers appreciate our visit sufficiently to deal fairly and respectfully with...
...predicted" that Japan would soon find it "necessary" to send her marines into the Shanghai International Settlement to stamp out anti-Japanese "terrorism."* Flushed by their small but solid victory at Amoy, the three Western countries put on at Shanghai a joint demonstration of just what resistance Japan would meet in the Settlement should her armed forces try to move...