Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this traffic Germany instituted its submarine campaign which so seriously hindered American commerce that it was considered an affront to our neutrality. The viewpoint of that day is illustrated by Wilson's proposal to Congress. He recommended that a law be passed to enable all ships in the American Merchant Marine to mount guns and carry appropriate gun crews. America's neutrality was something which must be maintained by force of arms. What happened is history...
Judge Baker loudly answered Editor Powell from the bench, accusing him of irregularities in his private life. Further charges of a similar nature began appearing in an anonymous sheetlet called The Dart. When The Dart promised to expose the private life of an important local merchant-one of the largest Times advertisers-Editor Powell's nuisance value to the paper grew by leaps & bounds...
...Merchant Nato, realizing that he now knew too much to be safe from assassination if he refused to contribute, grudgingly gave 60,000 yen, prepared to sell short. Meanwhile the plotters approached slackjowled Commander Saburo Yamaguchi, Inspector of Aircraft at Yokosuka Naval Base. Soon this simple officer had been pumped full of a patriotic idea: "Japan must be liberated from Parliament, Capitalism must be crushed, and pure Emperor-rule restored!" Fired with loyal zeal, Commander Yamaguchi agreed to drop bombs upon a Japanese Cabinet session, to blow up Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Station...
Significantly both short-selling Merchant Nato and slack-jowled Commander Yamaguchi "died in jail" before the trial, as did two others who might have blabbed on the fanatical Committee of Revolution. Those tried last week were nearly all raw country youths, dupes of typical Japanese "blood brotherhood" propaganda. On paper the Great Plot had been one of the most appalling in Japanese history. But the only weapons of the plotters, aside from the bombing plane which never appeared, was a collection of Japanese swords and a handful of revolvers obviously useless against the firearms of police guarding the cabinet...
...pneumonia in Moscow early last month fell Boston Merchant Edward A. Filene. Bedded in the Hotel National, he slowly recovered. Ill of pneumonia in Moscow late last month fell French Novelist Henri Barbusse, soon died. Ill of pneumonia in Moscow last week fell Illinois' flower-tongued, silver-whiskered Senator James Hamilton Lewis. In the suite below the one Merchant Filene had at the Hotel National, doctors called his condition "extremely critical," summoned medical supplies from Berlin and Paris...