Word: proceeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yards off the Empress' bows. A cold fog settled down over the liner. The escort cruisers anxiously nosed ahead, and on the Empress the siren sounded mournful blasts at intervals as it slowed to a halt. Thenceforth Vice-Admiral Sir Dudley North allowed the Royal flotilla to proceed only with extreme caution. In four-and-a-half days it advanced only 172 miles. On the Empress, George and Elizabeth invited all hands to movie shows of travel films and Walt Disney cartoons, got into a discussion over whether icebergs should be called "he" or "she." On Saturday His Majesty...
Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins last week told Commissioner of Immigration & Naturalization James L. Houghteling to proceed at once with hearings on the deportation case of Communist-suspect Harry Bridges, C. I. O.'s West Coast leader. After the Supreme Court's inconclusive ruling (TIME, April 24) that past membership in the Communist Party is not a deportable offense, she guessed the U. S. would have to prove: 1) that Australian-born Harry Bridges was a Communist at the time (March 1938) that his deportation warrant was issued; 2) that Alien Bridges advocates overthrow...
...fact, the practical difficulties may dictate a compromise with the principle. For the present at least, it may be better to proceed cautiously with the area idea, and to advance generally on the basis of the combined fields of concentration plan. That this advance would be on solid ground is fully demonstrated by the success of a combination such as History and Literature. The emphasis and the trend from specialization is the same. Ultimately, when all the implications have been realized, and when a capable staff has been trained, the area system may conceivably flower forth in its full glory...
...armed strength? To everyone's surprise his remarks were addressed not against Germany but against the democracies, whom he charged with "urging the Germans on to march farther East, promising them easy pickings and prompting them: 'You start a war against the Bolsheviks and then everything will proceed nicely.' " Their ulterior motive, he said, was to get Germany and Russia into war, let them knock each other groggy, and then, he intimated, step in to knock them both out. This passage was widely quoted by those who believe Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin may somehow, someday...
...London Daily Worker (see cut), Mr. Chamberlain's new policy became economic as well as social. Leaving next week for a tour of northern Europe is a British trade delegation. It will go first to Berlin, where it will stop for only a day. It will then proceed to Warsaw for a three-day stop and from there to Moscow for five or more days. Most prominent in the delegation will be Robert Spear Hudson, Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade, who once warned Germany that Britain could beat her at the barter game, and Mr. Frank...