Word: presentable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire southwestern quarter of Iowa (Council Bluffs the exception) and Crestonians are proud of its up-and-comingness. Crestonman Elmo Roper of FORTUNE Survey needs take no poll to know that. And you'll hear more about Creston if Crestonman Frank Phillips is successful in his present quest for a rich oil pool beneath the famous bluegrass (and corn) fields of this area. Creston even had three daily newspapers when Crestonman Gerald P. Nye was behind this very desk...
...conclusion is inevitable. . . . If we believe we can defend this hemisphere, then the whole argument for now waging economic war weakens." He would not even make war-selling a crime, but an affair strictly at the seller's peril. This policy could be achieved by simply repealing the present Neutrality Act, enacting nothing new, putting U. S. exporters on notice by simple executive warning as occasion may arise...
Last week, just 22 years after the U. S. last declared war, Colonel Stimson had the honor of being called as witness No. 1 before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sitting to consider extension, revision or junking of the present so-called Neutrality Act, important provisions of which expire May 1. To hear the Elder Statesman all but two of the 23 committeemen turned out.* Also present, though no committeeman, was North Dakota's Senator Gerald P. ("Neutrality") Nye, who took copious notes...
...Republican and the present Administration is Democratic, but I have always tried to limit my partisanship in the zone of foreign affairs. . . . I am not impressed with the fear that in that zone Presidential discretion will be abused...
...weigh my words when I say that I believe that our present Caucasian civilization is threatened by the gravest danger with which it has been confronted for four centuries...