Word: risks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declared or undeclared. It can engulf states and peoples remote from the original scene of hostilities. We are determined to keep out of war, yet we cannot insure ourselves against the disastrous effects of war and the dangers of involvement. We are adopting such measures as will minimize our risk of involvement, but we cannot have complete protection in a world of disorder in which confidence and security have broken down...
...faculty men are among the sixty persons who have signed a petition addressed to the Special Legislative Commission investigating "subversive elements" in Massachusetts. The petition, which will be received by Commission chairman Sybil Holmes today, states that "undue time and attention is being allotted to the Communists, with the risk that neither time nor money will suffice for the Nazi and Fascist part of the current investigations...
...then to leadership of a Kansas City local and finally in one tremendous leap to the front of C.I.O.'s noisiest, most turbulent union. Last week President Martin found himself in a spot from which he could not leap, much as he would have liked to, without immediate risk of mortal injury-Room No. 408 in Detroit's Hotel Eddystone...
Simultaneously, last week Lloyd's and all other consequential British underwriters stopped writing "war risk" policies not only for China and Spain but for anywhere on earth. In a joint manifesto the British insurers said they think they have made "a substantial contribution to the cause of world peace," explained that property owners unable to take out war risk policies will be forced to start "working for peace," concluded: "The wide radius of action of modern aircraft has made the area of destruction almost illimitable. Incendiary bombs have increased enormously the potential damage to property. Writing of war risk...
...window designing, which he regards as nearer to music than painting. He prefers the 12th Century masters who used large pieces of glass in the primary colors, simply juxtaposed, rather than designers of the 13th Century, who broke up their glowing blues and reds in complex patterns at the risk of purplish vibrations of light. "Purple addles your brain," Henry Willet says...