Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went aboard the Rex, Mr. Gerard undertook to give President Roosevelt a parting boost by declaring that he had $20,000 to bet 2-to-1 on Roosevelt's reelection, boasting that he could find no takers (TIME, July 27). If he thought that his offer would be safe because he was at sea, he was mistaken. Robert B. Greene, a Wall Street betting commissioner, in a radiogram to the Rex, took half the Democratic financier's bet for a client. Next a Republican who voted for Roosevelt in 1932, Le Grand Bouton Cannon of Tuxedo Park...
...fusillade which followed marked the first execution of a Japanese officer for political murder in 28 years. It occasioned no disturbance, no further outcropping of assassinations, and wary little Premier Koki Hirota felt safe last week in giving his firing squads some real work. According to the sentences of the divinely constituted court-martial, they were to shoot two infantry captains, a quartermaster captain, six infantry first lieutenants, an artillery first lieutenant, two infantry second lieutenants, an artillery and an engineer second lieutenant, a graduate of the Army Cadet School not yet commissioned and a retired Army officer-16 Army...
Sting No. 1. The British were blandly asked to provide Haile Selassie with "safe conduct" back to Ethiopia through the backstairs route of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a most embarrassing request which Mr. Coison made not privately to Mr. Eden but by whispering it among Geneva correspondents. His story was that one of the Emperor's sons is already trying to get back through the Sudan, encountering "trouble" from the British...
...Harrovian Baldwin, knowing the Opposition to be impotent because the Government won Britain's last election on a platform of Eden idealism and has the victory safe in pocket, replied to Major Attlee: "Because I mentioned the question of oil from America, I have been accused of putting the blame on America. / put no blame at all on America...
...love is lost between bumbling Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain and bawling Premier General James Barry Munnik Hertzog of South Africa. Last week Mr. Hertzog did his blatant best (at his exceedingly safe distance from Benito Mussolini) to make Mr. Baldwin seem cowardly in not pressing Sanctions against Italy. By a tremendous majority the South African Senate voted its undying support of the League of Nations, its defiance of the Conqueror of Ethiopia. And in London was Oswald Pirow. He was received in audience by Edward VIII. His Majesty's discerning former private secretary, Sir Godfrey Thomas...