Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolt gained point when Chairman Drewry of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced that now, a full year before the preliminaries to next
...Hack. Feuding executives, shrinking sales and rising costs recently carried hoary (1904), respected Reo Motor Car Co. down to a point where it had to undergo a major operation or liquidate...
French troops "reoccupied" a strategic strip of territory in the Red Sea area, establishing six garrisons there. This zone, facing the narrowest point of the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, was ceded to Italy in a Franco-Italian treaty of 1935. The treaty was never ratified by France and was denounced by Italy two months ago. In Paris it was pointed out that Italy had never occupied the zone thus hinting at France's right to retake...
...progressed from conservation to semantics to world politics, has digested all the best arguments for isolationism and illustrated them with a new stunt in The New Western Front ($1.50). The Europeans will always fight, he argues, so long as they are divided into 28 nations, and he sharpens his point picturesquely by dividing the U. S. into 20 governments-with Delta fearsomely protecting the Mississippi River corridor that splits resentful Blue Grass, with Yellowstone desperately trying to solve the financial muddle of three kinds of sponduliks...
Surprise. At this point both France and Britain got an unpleasant surprise. Generalissimo Franco, it appeared, did not prize British and French recognition as highly as British and French statesmen thought he would. His motto was: "Recognition first, negotiations second." As to declaring an amnesty, he wanted the Loyalists' "unconditional surrender...