Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...priming the pump: "Consumer buying power is the milk in the coconut of all business...
...reckoning in a U. S. district court as a tax-dodger this week came Kansas City, Mo.'s sick Boss Tom Pendergast. His power to make Missouri Governors and U. S. Senators had failed to unmake charges that he evaded Federal income taxes on $443,550, allegedly took $315,000 of that sum in slush from insurance companies (TIME, April...
Since Adolf Hitler came to full power even the least bellicose nations of Europe have feared for their lives. Alarmed by Herr Hitler's warlike attitude, Switzerland last autumn mined her frontiers, nearly doubled her Army strength. The Netherlands has exiled almost all her gold to safer regions, has completed plans for opening her dikes to flood a large part of the country. In the north countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, not only have there been increased expenditures for arms, but the four small nations have long been banded together as the Oslo Powers to present...
Tours. Although there was hope that the "war of nerves" waged by Italy and Germany might drag on through the summer without a major crisis, Germans and Italians were busy power-politicking on a half-dozen other fronts. Starting at Aachen on the Belgian frontier, Führer Hitler demonstratively inspected the reputedly impregnable 400-mile steel and concrete Limes Line (also called West Wall) on the French border, pronounced it good. II Duce wound up a tour of the Italian-French border with a more threatening speech against France than he had previously made on his tour...
...aide mémoire (an informal preliminary diplomatic note) the Japanese Government proposed far-reaching changes in the Government of the Shanghai International Settlement-changes which would give the Japanese virtual control of the Settlement. Chief Japanese demands were for more voting power for the Japanese residents of the International Settlement so that more Japanese could be elected to the Municipal Council. Other demands were for administrative and court "reforms." Just before going on leave, U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew handed Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita the U. S. reply. It was a strong rejection of all Japanese demands...