Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This case really starts a very serious social problem...
...manner of his doing it was a small thing. No small thing, however, were the circumstances that dictated the manner. The President was treading cautiously because Government economy and the "appeasement" of business (see p. 11), including the repeal of burdensome taxes, had become serious issues within his own party, even within his own Administration. Democrats who could not be ignored had taken a stand that could not be ignored. And the leader of these Democrats was that supposedly greatest of nonentities, a Vice President...
Future at 70. These objectives might seem rather meagre were it not for the fact that the drive for them is already bound up with the campaign of 1940. All those who become serious candidates for the next Democratic Presidential nomination will find the issues ready made for them by the quiet struggle now going...
Barked A. F. of L.'s negotiators (after telephoning Bill Green at Coshocton): ". . . The C. I. O. proposal does not offer any possible solution. . . . We are convinced that it was not even designed for serious consideration...
...London British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax perked up his ears, reminded General Franco that even though Britain had granted Franco Spain recognition, it had not granted belligerent rights. He announced to the House of Lords that "His Majesty's Government would regard as a very serious matter the sinking of a British merchant vessel even within territorial waters," that British warships had been instructed to "retaliate even inside territorial waters against any submarine taking such indefensible action...