Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed (205-to-0) and sent to the Senate a bill granting pensions to dependent Gold Star parents and widows of World War soldiers.* Replacing War Risk insurance payments which expire in the next three years, the pension ($45 a month for individual parents. $30 to $45 for widows) will go to 40,000 beneficiaries, cost the U. S. $8,900,000 to begin with...
...Ryan, 38, is editor of a highly profitable 136-page magazine called Oral Hygiene, sent free to 68,000 dentists each month* and of a 58-page monthly called Dental Digest to which 22,000 dentists subscribe. Instead of using his own magazines to present his Plan, and thus risk offending the profession, Dr. Ryan used the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, issued last week. To implement his Plan he required a chart of the human mouth which all dentists in the U. S. might understand. None of the 38 dental schools of this country had such a chart...
...sooner had he undertaken the mayor's race for Tammany than Dr. Copeland made an unusual announcement. He would likewise enter the Republican primary and welcome nomination on the Republican ticket. The reason for this was obvious: he runs altogether too serious a risk of being beaten in the Democratic primary. That risk is not so much his as Tammany's, for he indicated that he would not resign his place in the Senate to make the race...
Catalonian anarchists supporting the Leftist Government of Premier Dr. Juan Negrin asked leave to stage anti-Fascist rallies and parades on the first birthday of Spain's civil war last week, but were sternly repressed. Catalonia's President Luis Companys cared to risk no street riots among his Communist, Anarchist, Socialist and Republican supporters, and anyhow Leftist Spain was grimly straining every resource in its first large offensive...
Premier to keep in Japan's background and pursue a policy of bedseat driving, for everything depended on whether China's Dictator was now ready at last to risk in war with Japan his fine fleet of U. S. and Italian fighting planes and the German-trained Chinese regiments called "Chiang's Own." All these China's Dictator withheld from action at the time...