Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carried was destined for Singapore, but she was bound via the Suez Canal and her gallant crew felt they should first consult Secretary of State Cordell Hull. While their walking delegate was doing so, the Oregon's owners offered the crew a 50% bonus plus full war risk insurance for every man if they would hop to their stations and get her going...
...risk of ending on an anticlimax, I will take up two more points which Mr. Bingham makes. He relies very much on the report which Mr. Brundage brought back from Germany after spending a week there. I believe that one need only underline the fact that Mr. Brundage does not speak German and when he spoke to leaders of German Jewry, he did so either in the presence of official representatives of the Nazi government or with them hovering ominously in the background as it were. Even if these leaders of German Jewry did give a clean bill of fare...
...felt appeared in last month's Catholic University Bulletin. Calmly running the risk of scandalizing other Catholics, Bishop Ryan's able young assistant, Rev. Dr. Maurice S. Sheehy, labeled the retiring Rector "intolerant," "restless," "indiscreet," "inhuman" and possessed of a "superiority complex." Excerpts from his editorial...
...League of Nations since it asked nonLeague States to declare themselves on sanctions. Cabled the United States of Brazil, largest South American state: "NOT BEING A MEMBER OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS BRAZIL DOES NOT PROPOSE TO PARTICIPATE IN MEASURES NOW ADOPTED BY THAT BODY." Re-Export Risk. Before adjourning for the week the League Sanctions Committee decided at Geneva that League States, even if bound not to sell directly to Italy after sanctions are applied, may sell to nonLeague States, even if the seller knows that the ultimate destination of the goods is Italy. Even this did not satisfy...
Hitting at the Roosevelt Proclamation, Christian A. Herter, 2nd, '15, said that the phrasing was not clear, especially trading "at your own risk" with belligerents. Should an American ship be sunk with American lives lost, public opinion might easily shift and become intensely militaristic...