Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope the United States will keep out of this war. I believe that it will. ... As long as it remains within my power to prevent it, there will be no blackout of peace in the United States...
...minutes later but 90 minutes later he walked out-first envoy of a major power thus informally to be received, first thus to stay and chat with Franklin Roosevelt on his first diplomatic call. As he opened the front door to face the batteries of newsreel and flashbulb cameramen, a scrawny, tired black cat strolled casually across his path. He stooped and picked it up, while the newsreelmen went into a delighted frenzy.* The cat, counterpart of the one in London, named "Appeasement," which haunts No. 10 Downing St., was instantly dubbed "Crisis...
...shadows spread across the Atlantic last week faster than the Clipper plane that brought home Cinemastars Tyrone Power and his wife,Annabella. At Binghamton, N. Y., Dr. Ernst Schwarz, German-born president of Agfa Ansco Corp. (cameras, film), got his U. S. citizenship papers and quickly told the newspapers about...
...dread of war jabbed deep into U. S. citizens when New York City's Transportation Board observed that rock-cut subways would make perfect bombproof shelters, when policemen were assigned to power stations, docks and vital factories to guard against sabotage...
...High Council to choose her successor convened near London. Sessions were secret as the Army's progressive wing launched a full-dress attack to turn it democratic. Snail-like was the push, for the High Council can only elect or oust a General and has no other power to control him. Finally this obstacle was breached by quizzing the candidates, engineering a gentleman's agreement with each of them that "no changes . . . should be promoted by the General elected . . . without the fullest possible consideration of and consultation with the Commissioners of the Army...