Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Wilson could only plead with the nation to be neutral "in fact as well as in name ... in thought as well as in action." Any such neutrality, it soon appeared, was clearly impossible. Because the flag followed them wherever they went, U. S. citizens were free to risk not only their own but their nation's safety by traveling through war zones on belligerent ships. With its great navy, Britain blocked U. S. trade with Germany by search & seizure, took no U. S. lives in the process. U. S. vexation was largely assuaged by the fat profits rolling...
...munitioneers were to be licensed by a National Munitions Control Board, U. S. ships forbidden to carry munitions direct to belligerent ports, or to neutral ports for transshipment. At his discretion the President could also forbid U. S. citizens to travel on belligerent ships except at their own risk. The Senate, in effect, was issuing a "must" order to the President. That night, gravely dismayed, President Roosevelt summoned Secretary of State Hull, Assistant Secretary of State R. Walton Moore, Chairman Sam D. McReynolds of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to a solemn White House conference. Siding with the President...
...exact size and distribution of the Ford Fortune. But if he had revealed it publicly before the Senate Finance Committee last week, he would have violated the Federal secrecy-of-tax-returns law, could have been clapped into jail for one year and fined $1,000. Running no such risk he took his facts & figures from the annual reports filed by Ford Motor Co. with the Massachusetts Commissioner of Corporations, estimated the company to be worth $600,000,000, 41½% owned by Son Edsel...
Promptly Artist Katz retorted: "I would sooner risk my reputation as an honest artist than change that mural. The young generation demands facts and asks the artist not to flatter but to tell of life as it is. In that mural I expressed an ideal honestly and with all the powers of my background and training, and without any frivolity or monkey business...
...back at 180. Refused a permanent job, she appealed to the New York State Commissioner of Education, who last week asked Board of Examiners Chairman Henry Levy to state his grounds. Fat teachers, said Examiner Levy, cannot climb stairs, move fast enough in fire drills; they are a poor risk for the compulsory pension system; they are "esthetically undesirable." Said Rose Freistater's sturdy father David: "Rose is not fat. She is just big and strong. That fellow Levy said she wasn't pretty. What does he know about it? Why, Rose has always had a fellow...