Word: opened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a convention delegate offered a Roosevelt-Third-Term resolution˜such as has become routine at conventions of C. I. O. affiliates˜Chairman Lewis squelched him. Thus Mr. Lewis had left wide open the question of C. I. O. al legiance in 1940. The convention then went on record against all amendments to the Wagner Act, and against diversion of Federal funds from social services to Rearmament (but did not oppose Rearmament as such). It demanded more Relief, more Housing, more and better Planning in the name of greater production, greater employment, greater consumer purchasing power...
Most successful trick employed by the Japanese is to slip Japanese uniforms on rubber dummies, stand them up in open trucks and thus deceive the guerrillas into thinking that the truck convoys are too heavily guarded for attack. Both sides frequently use dummies. Other correspondents have reported that Japanese bombers rain tons of expensive explosives on Chinese ''airplanes" and "tanks" which, upon capture, turn out to be reed matting or wooden imitations placed in the open to draw fire. Last week pictures arrived in the U. S. which show heads and shoulders of Chinese "soldiers...
...British Government and London financial circles. In the days before Munich, Britain and France were liberal with credits to the small States of Europe, in the belief that such grants could stave off German commercial expansion. But with the Munich Pact and British Prime Minister Chamberlain's open admission that it is Germany's natural position to dominate trade in the Danubian basin, Britain's purse strings have been pulled tight. Last week Carol reportedly asked: 1) loan of $75,000,000; 2) British capital to develop Rumania's oil fields; 3) increased British purchases...
Last month the U. S. protested that Japan had closed besieged China's "Open Door" to U. S. business. Chapter & verse of specific violations of the Nine Power Treaty of 1922 were sent from Washington to Tokyo. Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye observed that there was a "new order" in East Asia, and the Japanese Foreign Office official spokesman declared that the Nine Power Treaty was "obsolete...
...thousand women and children were knocked unconscious and eleven were killed last week in the scramble of 300,000 of Istanbul's inhabitants to get a look into the open coffin of the late President Kamal Atatürk. Vowing to follow her foster father to the grave, Flight Lieutenant Sahiba Gokçen, Turkish woman army flier, fasted in Istanbul's Dolmabaghche Palace, was later persuaded by physicians to pull herself together and leave for Ankara, the capital...