Word: quos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keeping close to the concrete experience of the professional, can help to form this larger plan. A comparatively small body of social workers cannot bring our hundreds of communities along very rapidly in their thinking unless they have the layman's help. The forces of status quo are much stronger than those of change and it takes a tremendous amount of energy to keep fluidity and growth in the movement. This interpretation to the community is the intelligent layman...
...Mexican Embassy at Washington; an unnamed Turkish Minister of Marine; Comptroller General Lopez of Bolivia; an unnamed chef de cabinet of Brazil; an assorted handful of Chinese war lords. The inferences of the correspondence was that almost all of these foreign statesmen had accepted bribes as a quid pro quo in U. S. armament sales abroad. As unofficial protests piled up at the State Department, Secretary Hull attempted to pass them off with a single shrewd remark...
Telegram by Limousine. Welcome at this juncture was a diversion by Chinese Delegate Quo Tai-chi who wailed: "There is no doubt that continued military occupation [by Japan] of China's northeastern provinces constitutes the gravest existing danger of another war." After Mr. Quo had declared "Russia is the arch between Europe and Asia, hence China welcomes Russia to membership in the League," he received warm congratulations from the Great Powers and M. Barthou got back to the business of steering the Soviet Union...
...Quid Pro Quo. Only four tariff concessions did the U. S. make to Cuba: 1) a reduction from 1½ to 9? a lb. on raw sugar; 2) a reduction from $4 to $2.50 a gal on Cuban rum; 3) reductions upwards of 50% on Cuban cigars and tobaccos; 4) reductions averaging about 50% on grape- fruit, lima beans, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, okra, peppers and squash...
...that the people said of him: "He is a man of business." His principle: "If in doubt, kill! Nor fear that you waste aught of value." His aim was to govern well; when he found that modernization went against the country's grain he benevolently preserved the status quo. He permitted the kind of free press that Mussolini enjoys. When a newspaper offended him he confiscated its owners' property, paid for it in worthless bonds. His laws were few but so sternly administered that crime became practically unknown. Said he: "It is my belief that England...