Word: partials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pipsqueak U. S. munitions business, popped out proposals for mandatory, two-sided embargoes on arms, loans, credits. Panting from White House to Capitol, Secretary of State Hull persuaded President Roosevelt to take a firm stand for discretionary legislation, persuaded the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to snatch back its partial approval of the drastic Nye-Clark proposals. Thereafter State Department experts and Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis were left to putter in peace with their own ideas of neutrality bylaw...
...Having been agreed for some time on a partial report covering all other features of the Social Security Bill, conferees recessed until this week to await completion of a complex compromise aimed at breaking their long deadlock on the Senate's amendment permitting private old-age pension systems...
...stars, shining streams of gas. dark clouds of cosmic debris, galaxies and super-galaxies glimmering across unimaginable gulfs of space. To avoid duplication of effort, to facilitate exchange of information and encourage cooperative research, astronomy's huge and complex task was years ago brought under the scrutiny and partial control of an international body. The International Astronomical Union, undisturbed by terrestrial wars and politics, held its first congress in 1922 at Rome. Since then it has met in England. The Netherlands, the U. S., once every three or four years. Last week it wound up its fifth congress...
...Became abruptly interested in President Roosevelt when Conservative Thomas Levy demanded that His Majesty's Government act to protect "from the partial control of a foreign government" such British public utilities as are controlled by U. S. holding companies now controlled in turn...
...scheme tentatively announced by Dr. Bock indicates that he recognizes the need for a radical reorganization of the entire system. To undergraduates who have suffered the privations of Stillman Infirmary, the partial elimination of this antiquated monstrosity is a welcome innovation...