Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paper Victory. As Walter White sat peering curiously down at the Senate from his gallery seat, he had already won a paper victory. He claimed, and neutral observers were disposed to accept his estimate, 73 votes for his bill in the turbulent chamber below. But these were promissory notes, useless until a final roll call forced collection. And just as there were Representatives willing to bring the Administration's Wages-&-Hours Bill out of an obstructive rules committee but unwilling to vote for it when they got the chance, so too there were Senators last week willing to vote...
...such was the Conference's purpose President Roosevelt will soon be invited to apply the U. S. Neutrality Act. More important from the Japanese standpoint, it would permit Japan to carry her unofficial blockade of the Chinese Coast to the point of searching neutral ships for contraband...
...petroleum, copper and machine tools. On the broad economic front Soviet production is rising, as indeed Tsarist industrial production rose spectacularly in the decade before the Revolution, but Soviet fulfillment of the Plans as a "system of planned economy" or a "planned economic order" cannot be found by neutral economists in Moscow-each of whom has his own pet instances in which he thinks he has caught Gosplan quibbling, contradicting official figures with official figures, or just plain lying...
Fortnight ago King and Cabinet clashed again as Premier Nahas' majority Wafdists picked a successor for Ali Maher's vacated Senate seat. Farouk refused to confirm the Cabinet's selection and the thwarted Premier again backed down, agreed to nominate a candidate neutral in the controversy. Last week the bickering came to a head with both King and Cabinet in a bellicose mood. The Cabinet sent Farouk a flat demand that he sign a bill recently passed by Parliament allowing the Premier to distribute, without accounting for, some $195,000 in secret funds for suppression of foreign...
...grew weaker under the pounding. Just before the bell, for the first time in his career, he finally dropped to the canvas. For the eighth round, Thomas walked into the ring bleary-eyed. Schmeling hit him with a right and he went down again. Schmeling confidently turned to a neutral corner, but at the count of "One," Thomas was up after him. Schmeling slugged him again, and again he arose at "One." Four more times he went down under Max Schmeling's famed "Sunday punch," and each time rose ready to fight. The crowd, sickened by the sight, screamed...