Word: right
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ratified (65 to 15) the long-delayed new treaty with Panama,* clarifying the U. S right to defend the Canal, upping Canal Zone rental from 250,000 to 430,000 balboas per annum. One balboa equals the gold value of one Roosevelt dollar (59.06?). The effect: Panama won her demand to get her canal rent from 1934 in old (100?) dollars instead of devalued (59?) dollars, became the only creditor on whom the U. S. has not succeeded in welching by devaluation...
...speech: "I don't want to conquer anybody. I want to do good by everybody. Because-because this is a big world, and there's plenty of room for all of us in it. Yes. Even for dictators. Even for Hinkle! Hinkle. He wants to do right. He's just full of hate and bitterness, that...
...Parliament Prime Minister Chamberlain denied that this was a change in policy. He declared emphatically that future discussions "will be confined to local issues at Tientsin" and Britain would not abandon her support of Chinese currency or right to grant credits to China. Again the Japanese thought otherwise...
...Children are sensitive to order. They want things in their right places, and in the same place all the time. They should be allowed to put things away and have the security of knowing they will find them where they were...
...Dear German reader: I am writing you because I want peace. . . . Can you defeat us in a war? It would have to be a short war, a lightning war, as even your experts admit. It is said that you will bomb London from the air. All right, so what? . . . I admit that you could kill about 300,000 civilians. Certainly, if you think that over, you will realize that that will make you lose the war. Germany's name will stink to high heaven from north pole to south pole and it would draw the Americans into...