Word: reverts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writes, "our world does not possess the requisite courage and cohesion, then we had better abandon our dream of a warless future, and revert to the limited objective of 'peace in our time.' With such an end in view, we may still turn for counsel to the pre-War system. At its worst, it was less dangerous than a paper facade, which no nation trusts or fears. At present, it seems, nations which should trust are dominated by fear, and those which fear are emboldened. The peoples of the world seem at times to resemble a crowd in a small...
When the Supreme Court invalidated Section 9c of NIRA last fortnight, it was dourly predicted that the oil industry would swiftly revert to pre-Rooseveltian chaos, that a flood of East Texas "hot oil" would sweep the price of crude down from...
...Princess Xenia, daughter of the late Grand Duke George Michaelovitch of Russia, divorced wife of William Bateman Leeds. On her complaint that ''Mrs. William B. Leeds" gave rise to confusion and that "Princess Xenia" was of doubtful legality, the judge granted her permission to drop her title, revert to her family name, be known henceforth as Xenia Romanoff...
...responsibility of investing, maintaining and safeguarding the funds constituting the necessary insurance reserves." Defenses: "This Congress has not only set an example of large vision for all time, but has almost consigned to oblivion our ancient habit of pork barrel legislation; to that we cannot and must not revert. ... It is childish to speak of recovery first and reconstruction afterward. "Ample scope is left for the exercise of private initiative. In fact, in the process of recovery, I am greatly hoping that repeated promises that private investment and private initiative to relieve the Government in the immediate future of much...
...income from the estate will revert to Judge Gary's two daughters by his first wife: Gertrude Gary Sutcliffe of Chicago and Bertha Gary Campbell, whose husband is general counsel for Illinois Steel Co. In her will Mrs. Gary left her art collection and the bulk of her estate to the Metropolitan Museum...