Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, in London, keeping its statistical eye on the vanishing chance of Peace, Lloyd's announced that it would cancel the war risk clause now included in all open contracts, giving the ten-day notice required...
...most Soviet merchant ships. This worthy, Comrade Miguschenko, agreed that even with $7,000 worth of Government oil at stake, the danger of a major explosion aboard the tanker which would flood the sea with blazing oil and perhaps destroy the S. S. Soviet was too great to risk. The only thing to do, the Captain decided, was to cut the tow rope...
...week at Bolzano: "Italy has a question to settle with Ethiopia. She does not have and does not wish to have questions with Great Britain. . . . The Fascist Government thinks that Italy's colonial question should have no reaction on the European situation, unless one wishes to run the risk of letting loose a new World War in order to prevent a great power like Italy from bringing order to a bad country. . . . The Fascist Government believes that it will find in the League Council a group of responsible and wise...
...with Francis M. Rickett of whom they said they had never heard, the U. S. fiscal reaction was: "This whole thing looks queer." With President Roosevelt just done up by the Senate in a neutrality cat's cradle, what U. S. syndicate, asked Wall Streeters, has millions to risk in Ethiopia, where U. S. economic interest would have to begin by calling for the Marines...
...infringed." "For the German judge as for the private citizen," continued the Minister of Justice, "the Nazi philosophy of life will be the guiding light. . . . Every clause in the penal code will have a 'danger zone.' Whoever moves in this sphere will do so at his own risk. . . . Wrong may exist, accordingly, in the Germany of the future, even where there is no law providing a punishment. No one must be lucky enough to slip through the meshes...