Word: rift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tons, costing some $25,000 most of which has been handed down from Enterprise. Her 165-ft. duralumin mast was made by the Glenn L. Martin airplane plant in Baltimore, shipped North in sections. When he selected her name, Skipper Vanderbilt sentimentalized thus: "Rainbow is an omen significant of rift, and parting of the clouds, indicating fair sailing and better times ahead...
...country, it is imperative that Congress agree with the President. The country will watch this new bill to see whether it will be added to the emergency powers of Roosevelt as is necessary if the United States is to keep itself economically independent, or whether it will cause a rift which would destroy the benefits of the great work already accomplished...
...Only rift in the Conference proceedings came when Cuban Chief Delegate Angel Giraudy interrupted a debate to say: "I declare with deliberation that the United States is intervening in Cuba, strongly intervening! No United States Marines have landed, but the United States has been engaged in intrigue against our president and his Government through Ambassador Sumner Welles [see p. 15]. If that is not intervention, what...
...Last week President Roosevelt held fast to his managed currency program. The Treasury upped the price of gold to $34.01. To dampen persistent tales of a rift between the Treasury and the hard-money Federal Reserve Board, Governor Eugene Black, by all odds the funniest and funniest-looking man in the Administration, showed up at Warm Springs. While his chief was paddling about the tepid swimming pool, Governor Black stood nearby, sorrowfully rattled a copy of the Atlanta Constitution which headlined the recurrent story that he was about to resign. "It isn't so much that...
Behind the Soong-Chiang rift of last week-they have quarreled several times before-observers saw more than the chronic impatience of the Chinese Generalissimo with a Finance Minister unable to supply him with unlimited funds for his troops. Recently Dr. Soong, without openly denouncing Generalissimo Chiang. has shown extreme distaste for his policy of conciliation toward Japan. With Soong out of the way, at least for a time, Chiang went the limit last week and announced regular railway service would be reestablished on Nov. 10 between China and Manchukuo for the first time in two years. He hinted that...