Word: scares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McReynolds bill was a momentous mandatory provision for an embargo on loans and credits to all belligerents. Otherwise the new bill largely strengthens, confirms and makes permanent the peace policy set up by Congress, President and Secretary of State since Italy's Ethiopian campaign sent a great war scare rumbling across the U. S. As in the expiring law, the President in case of war must declare an embargo on arms, ammunition & implements of war against all belligerents, must forbid U. S. ships to carry munitions directly or indirectly to belligerents. He may forbid U. S. citizens to travel...
...sacred room are watching anxiously from their narrow windows in the cathedral. For with the priest is an American, a reporter. and the two are walking back and forth. The reporter has been talking at length and finally ends with something liek this: "But a look won't scare them away. Can't you understand what it means for you, for my newspaper, for the world if these sacred relics which you say the Queen of Sheba brought from solomon's court are really in existence? I only want a look...
Moving picture producers are often unfortunate in the choice of titles. The Hollywood that changed "The Admirable Crichton" to "Male and Female" has done even worse by Claudette Colbert in her latest vehicle. But don't let the tittle scare you away from "She Married Her Boss." In it Miss Colbert demonstrates once again that she is the first comedy actress of the screen, and she gets able support from Melvyn Douglas and the rest of the cast...
...send his white metal to the Government's banks. If that threat works it means, among other things, that the Japanese forces now predominant in North China will see all their silver slip through their fingers to Nanking. One way to stop such a slip was to scare the daylights out of China by another "Shanghai Incident." In Peiping, where Japanese last week forced the installation of puppet Mayor Chin Teh-chuan, Japanese military authorities gave an inkling of what the Araki Brothers may be up to by having their official spokesman boom: "If North China should send...
...Because I imagine the U. A. L. is quite a large advertising account but you may tell the executives of the United Air Line I intend to make use of their fine plane service as soon as I accumulate the necessary funds. No single crash can scare me away...