Word: newe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cool early morning in autumn, New York City's Park Avenue is a quiet place to walk. Town-house curtains are drawn against the dawn; broad sidewalks are bare of people. Yawning, hotel doormen crack their white-gloved knuckles in boredom...
First the Senate got rid of a move to split the Pittman bill in two, divorcing the controversial arms-embargo section from the less controversial title-and-carry provisions. Although New Hampshire's Charles Tobey had proposed this split in a sincere desire to get U. S. shipping immediately legislated out of combat areas abroad, the effect would have been to put the weight of debate solely on the Isolationist issue: sale of arms to belligerents...
...Isolationists took the floor to bellow steadily all afternoon. The galleries were more than half empty; the press doodled or played word-puzzles in the press gallery. Shockproof to the familiar roar of the Isolationists' big guns, the reporters sat up and took notice only when two new cannoneers appeared: homespun, silent William John Bulow of South Dakota, glib, emotional Dennis Chavez of New Mexico...
Ships. Key Pittman's army is a motley one of Republican converts, Old Dealers, New Dealers. Some are stragglers by nature, others can easily be lured up inviting side alleys. In one of those side alleys stood an expert siren whose wiles have been 100% effective in U. S. history: the shipping lobby...
Said Admiral Land, through his Senatorial mouthpiece: If the proposed neutrality bill became law, of 326 U. S. ships (2,150,000 gross tons), 130 (860,000 gross tons) would be forced to rot in harbors. There is now no place for the 137 new Maritime Commission vessels (all ordered, 22 of them launched) to go. Annual gross revenues of $73,000,000 would be seriously impaired. About 9,000 seamen would become jobless. Such vital U. S. imports as tin, rubber, manganese, chromium, would be curtailed...