Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the effect would be on the U. S. people and on Franklin Roosevelt's position as their leader, remained to be determined. As day followed day and no reply came from the Dictators (see p. 19), rejection by them, perhaps an insulting rebuff to Franklin Roosevelt, seemed certain. In that event, public opinion in the U. S. would form in one of two ways: behind him more strongly than ever as a champion who, having done his best for peace, must now do his best for the Democracies; or against him more strongly than ever as an international...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt suffered his first rebuff in the new Congress today when a House Subcommittee sliced $150,000,000 from his proposed $875,000,000 appropriation to finance relief until July 1, and restricted its expenditure...
...resistance to a Hitler thus tempted was generally discarded. But recently King Carol visited London, stopped off at Berlin, and went home drastically to purge the fascist party. The purge followed within a few days of the Berlin visit. Such an unexpected turn of events strongly suggests a pointed rebuff to Hitler...
...biggest pogrom last week continued and expanded. Their present hunger and oppression was not all that Jews needed to fear. They seemed to have no future but hunger and oppression. The Führer and Chancellor made it known through trusted Nazis that in all probability Germany will rebuff all offers by the Great Powers to organize emigration of Jews from the Reich...
...news-interest with the Derby at Churchill Downs. Of all 32 Senatorial primaries this year, Kentucky's Democratic race is the most significant and most colorful-significant because, in the person of his Majority Leader of the Senate, Franklin Roosevelt himself is in effect running to avert a rebuff to his New Deal; colorful because Senator Barkley's challenger is a brassy colt who, on sheer political form, could win in a walk if this were not a Roosevelt Handicap...