Word: slashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paring process of candidates for the University and Jayvee crews has resulted in a slash of the crew squad from eight to four combinations it was announced last night by Coach Whiteside. Today the four crews, from which it is expected that the first string oarsmen will be gleaned, will commence the last extensive workout period in the Newell Boathouse tank before the shells have been shipped onto the Charles...
Statesman Stimson seemed relieved by this turn of affairs; but meanwhile in Washington, President Herbert Hoover let the White House correspondents announce that he stood ready to go as far as Ramsay MacDonald or anyone else, that the U. S. would gladly join the Great Powers in any armament slash, however deep. This same position has been taken by Dictator Benito Mussolini for many years. Despite his saber-rattling, the representative of Italy has declared, time after time, that she would join the rest of the world in reducing armaments: "To any common minimum, even the lowest...
Today America's delegates sail for the London Conference. According to President Hoover, who is largely responsible for the existence of the new parley, a definite slash in the seafaring implements of war is desired, rather than the negative restraint of limitation alone. The diplomatic rigmarole of another generation is to be the first contribution to the scrap-heap. In the second attempt of which America is a main instigator, civilization is sanguine of one more affirmation of the futility...