Word: opening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually, I suspended no civil processes in any instance. The courts remained open and functioned in a normal way. Troops were sent to Sullivan and Vigo counties as a symbol of the authority of the State and its determination to preserve order. Over a period of time there was a progressive reduction of the number of troops until finally we had only one squad on duty, although martial law technically was continued...
...fleet was moved back to the Pacific at a moment when Britain needed all her available sea power in European waters (TIME, April 24), so now the U. S., as Britain backed up to ease tension in China, stepped forward threatening a thrust that would open Japan's military jugular if delivered...
...denounce that treaty, giving six months' notice as provided in its articles. After the six months, an embargo could be voted, based on Japan's violations of the Nine-Power treaty of 1922 which guaranteed China's territorial and administrative integrity (and by inference, the Open Door). After a talk with the President last week, Secretary Hull asked Senator Pittman to put the Vandenberg resolution through the Senate, where sentiment for it was hot. Mr. Pittman deplored giving a Republican such a good break so Secretary Hull made the denunciation off the State Department...
...orator, George Truett has been compared with Bryan, Henry Grady, the great Baptist Evangelist Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Last week, after his 50,000 Baptists had paraded down Atlanta's Peachtree Street, with flags, bands and detachments of troops.* Baptist Truett opened the Alliance congress in the baseball stadium, from which the Atlanta Crackers had retired for a week. He led off: "As Baptists from around the encircling globe are gathered in the beautiful, forward-looking and nobly hospitable city of Atlanta. . . ."Launching into a lengthy comparison between Baptist and Roman Catholic beliefs, he summed up his own by saying...
...Princetown, England, home of famed Dartmoor Prison, villagers watched open-mouthed while a uniformed convict shambled sheepishly through the town, knocked at the prison gates, shouted: "I've been locked...