Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Decorously Le Temps, echoing the French Government's official view, observed, "It would be inadvisable to seek to disarm those powers, like France, for whom, because of their geographical position, land forces constitute the principal guarantee of security, while nations which are relatively safe from invasion and hold in the control of sea power their best guarantee, should continue to dispose liberally of the most formidable offensive armaments...
...these flames (and high tariffs are a fiery essence of nationalism) Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain hopes to extract with honor not only the Empire but the world. Toward the U. S. cold Neville is studiously friendly, never tires of assuring British doubters that U. S. currency is safe & sound on gold and will remain there...
Last week in Washington Assistant Attorney General Seth Richardson's report on Hawaii was published. Early this year the Senate, stirred by the Massie rape, the Kahahawai killing (see above) and the Navy's charge that its women were not safe in Hawaii, caused Attorney General Mitchell to send Mr. Richardson for a personal investigation. His report flayed Honolulu's law enforcement, blamed politics for the current mess and deflated much of the race sensationalism attaching to the Massie and Fortescue cases. Excerpts...
...always has his audiences in the palm of his hand, and he knows just how to keep it there. The result is a spontanaeity that leads one to believe that he is making up his lines as he goes along--as he doubtless is, sometimes. His gestures, especially a "safe-at-home" motion and a raised forefinger, say even more than his lines...
...certain that the highest office in Germany is not to change hands, the way will be paved for a better atmosphere for the work on the disarmament reparations, and debt problems which have been facing Western Europe and especially Germany and France. France regards Hindenburg as a relatively 'safe' candidate as compared with Hitler and it was a curious but significant fact that on the streets of Paris when the election figures were announced showing Hindenburg's large lead over Hitler at the first voting, there were cheers for the man who had been one of the leading commanders...