Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mediocrity, but a shrewd, hard-working careerist was Claude Swanson. A son of Reconstruction, he worked and borrowed his way through college and University of Virginia's law school. He made money as a country lawyer, ran a country newspaper on the side. After twelve years in the U. S. House he was made Governor by the greatest of all Virginia political bosses, Senator Thomas Staples Martin, and then sent to the Senate for a career that lasted 22 years. He was one of Woodrow Wilson's main props in that chamber during the idealistic War years...
Senator Borah, of course, was stanch at Senator Johnson's side. So was North Dakota's Gerald ("Neutrality") Nye. They declared they had a minimum of 34 votes, perhaps as many as 60. Thirty-four Senators exercising "every honorable and legitimate means" at their command could filibuster Neutrality far into August's dog days...
Massed by the thousands outside Danzig were Poland's troops. But they scrupulously stayed on the Polish side of the border. The Free City of Danzig's government is supervised by a League of Nations High Commissioner. Poland's rights there are limited to the administration of customs, railroads, and foreign relations. Internally Danzig is autonomous. Thus the treaties which gave Poland an outlet to the sea through Danzig prohibit Polish military occupation of that outlet. On the Westerplatte, a low bank at the entrance to Danzig Harbor, however, is generally harbored a small garrison of Polish...
...dictatorships. But it did not go really leftish and its original leftish editorial connections-Jay Cooke Allen (Chicago Tribune'?, foreign correspondent), George Seldes (You Can't Print That!), Ernest Hemingway- gradually drifted away. Editor Gingrich went on publishing sensational "inside" stories, not consistently taking any political side, while Ken drifted also as a business venture...
Homeric was the proxy fight launched by tall, studious Langbourne Meade Williams Jr. in 1928 before the ink was fairly dry on his Harvard Business School diploma. On his side was the family banking house into which he had been born 25 years before, the firm of John R. Williams of Richmond, Va. On the other was the established, close-mouthed management of the $19,303,681 Freeport Texas sulphur syndicate headed by old E. P. Swenson, onetime board chairman of Manhattan's powerful National City Bank...