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Word: provisionally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reality. Early this week they and the U. S. got a conclusive tip-off that the Isolationist cause in the Great Debate was now becoming more & more a desperate attempt to stall off inevitable defeat. Michigan's Vandenberg said he was drafting a version of the Hoover-Lindbergh plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Brass Tacks | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Out of this detailed mass of technicalities emerged the solid fact that President Roosevelt's discretionary powers over Foreign Policy would be sharply limited. In his strain to prove the honest will of the Administration to keep out of war, and to prove his intent to give Congress control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Phantoms | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Under that sky, political lineups went by the board. The battle lines were drawn around a confused, mishandled, four-year-old Neutrality Act. To Washington the President summoned the Congress to meet on September 21 in special session. He prepared to ask them to repeal the major section of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Fugue | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Though sad, the stories do not make the reader cry; though funny, they do not make him laugh; cumulatively they make him nervous. The bare, observant technique draws attention to itself and to its occasional flaws (the story Trouble in 1949 hinges on an exchange of car keys for which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heeltalk | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

The documentary evidence gathered and reported by the Senate Investigating Com mittee was evidently considered sufficiently convincing by Congress for beginning with the Neutrality Law of 1936, there has been adopted a ban on loans and credits to nations at war. There has been no move whatsoever to eliminate that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1939 | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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