Word: repeater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needs, France would have to lay her cards on the table before Italy, for the simple reason that the conference procedure is alphabetical and F comes before I. When his turn came, Signer Grandi, already assured of parity with France, already aware of her maximum demands, would simply repeat with a virtuous air Signor Benito Mussolini's old saying, repeated at every conference for years, "Italy stands ready to reduce to any common minimum, even the lowest" (TIME, Jan. 27). Thus the blame for maintaining heavy armaments would be shifted neatly and wholly on to France...
Once when Dr. Curtius asked leave to bring in one of the German experts, M. Tardieu snapped: "Bring in whomever you like! But-I repeat it-France will not yield!" (Many Paris editors chorused praise of the "dignity and firmness" of this typical Tardieuism...
...charity because it has persisted for so long (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928 et seq.). Even the Red Cross has ceased to give aid. Now and then it should be remembered that roughly 12,000,000 Chinese stomachs are suffering the gnawing pains of slow starvation. Use less to repeat that thousands of parents are eating their children when they can catch them, thousands of young people gnawing their grandparents as they fall. A population greater than New York plus Chicago is slowly sinking below the level of dog-eat-dog to Death...
...Unquestioned success at London requires visible reduction in expenditures and the abolition of battleships is the hope, if net savings are to be obtained. The rapid development of the airplane and the submarine during the 11 years since the war has made it unlikely that battleships will ever again repeat the Gallipoli adventure. The only other historic use of battleships is in fighting other battleships. If there are no other battleships to fight, what is a battleship to do? It can not catch a cruiser. It is afraid of submarines. It will begin to dodge clumsily about...
...great Soviet protagonist, acted more directly. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant Attorney-General, now Washington attorney for The Aviation Corp. which owns Alaskan Airways, begged him to intercede. He cabled to Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs at Moscow. At once the Russians, eager to repeat their glory of rescuing the wrecked Italia crew, ordered out three planes stationed within flying distance of Eielson's disappearance. They also telegraphed and radioed Siberian outposts to send out sledge parties...