Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appease the aggressor. Businessmen (who want quick turnover) and cynics (who deride quixotic sympathies) think the U. S. should make a new, and better, trade treaty with Japan when the abrogated Treaty of 1911 expires next month. Japan has no better customer than the U. S., and is the U. S.'s third best. To get on Japan's good side, argue the protagonists of this plan, it would be worth swapping away spheres of interest in China, which, they say, are already lost anyhow...
Extraordinarily infuriating was this mild suggestion to G. O. P. politicians. For many a month they have been debating this question: How to pick a candidate who will be the antithesis of the Democratic nominee before they know who the latter gentleman will...
...which radioed from the South Atlantic that she was being attacked, was heard from no more. Probable assailant: the German raider Admiral Scheer. Germany claimed a grand total of 194 merchantmen (68 neutral, for which she was "sorry") with a tonnage of 735,768-nearly 250,000 tons a month, which would be about one-fourth the highest monthly figure reached in World...
...people is one of patient determination to win the war. Underlying it are many other contributing moods held by varying classes and factions. The free people of the United Kingdom last week found significant spokesmen to express three of their varying moods as World War II entered its fourth month...
...typical French soldier's wife was going a bit hungry last week, scrimping to send her man all she possibly could. One Mme Jeanne Durand, who has a job paying $50 monthly and has been sending her husband nothing, was sensationally hauled into court on his demand from the Maginot Line that she be made to live up to the "mutual faithfulness, aid and support" clause in their marriage contract. Setting a legal precedent, the court ordered Mme Durand to pay $2.25 per month toward settling the canteen bill of her drafted husband...