Word: perils
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...this new Issue held up, the G. O. P. had an 80-ton tank. The New Deal has spent 60 billion dollars-seven billions on national defense-and still in an hour of peril the U. S. was weak. No Issue has to be the truth: an Issue only has to seem true. (Examples: 1928-Al Smith would let Rome run the country; 1932-Herbert Hoover would let the U. S. starve...
...time in the last war were we in greater peril than now. I urge the Members most strongly to deal with these matters not in a precipitate vote . . . but in a grave manner, in due time, and in accordance with the dignity of Parliament...
Meanwhile Rumanian police made a belated attempt to do something about 40,000 German "tourists" who came for Easter and stayed. Germans who had lived for generations in the Rumanian Banat passed the watchword, "Hitler will soon be here." In view of the general peril, Rumania and Russia were reported to have agreed to reduce tension on the Bessarabian frontier by removing troops six and a quarter miles from each side of the line. In the oil fields preparations were made to pump the oil wells full of concrete if Rumania is invaded by anybody...
...Hatch's friends had motives, too. With him, for instance, were West Virginia's Rush Holt & Matthew Neely, who last week, after years of venomous enmity, were reconciled in time of peril. Young Mr. Holt is up for reelection; Mr. Neely wants to be Governor. To win, they must break down the powerful Kump-Holt-Hogg* Statehouse machine. They hit the sawdust trail for Mr. Hatch. In his ranks were also Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark, poignantly interested in crippling the State organization of Governor Lloyd Crow Stark; Georgia's George & Russell, who want to clip...
...this most recent chapter of Labor's history, political moralists could find much to marvel at, little to approve. Labor's Magna Charta was obviously in peril; equally obviously, the peril had arisen in part from zealotry in the Government and greed in the house of Labor itself...