Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...struck. Firmly the State Department held that the President should be allowed to decide when and against whom he would lay an arms embargo. Only by holding that threat in reserve, it was argued, could the U. S. cooperate with other nations in exerting its "moral influence" to sober an aggressor, forestall a conflict...
...Sober French trade union leaders and the property-hugging French proletariat were at their wits' end last week as obstreperous Communists and wharf scum at the naval ports of Brest and Toulon staged a bloody dress-rehearsal of revolution...
...feet "because the king is greatly affected by noise." So were 150,000 spectators. Even at 1,000 feet the menacing clatter of the air armada filled Britons less with pride than fear. The great throng at the climax of the "Fly Past" seemed stricken dumb. Sober faces were eloquent of what everyone was thinking: "These are our planes, but they might be Germany...
...been seeing the President regularly -twice a week for months. What did they think of these rumors? With one accord-and not a little blasphemy-they branded them as pure and unadulterated bunk. Well, I tried a few questions of the same sort on Capitol Hill among the sober-headed legislators. With just as much unanimity and only a little less color, they said the same thing: 'Pure and unadulterated bunk.' Then I sprang it on a few men-about-Washington -who make it a point to be in on the know -regardless of who is President. Their...
...CLOUDS IN THE SKIES OF THE FAR EAST ? Tom Ireland ? Putnam ($2.75). Sober, highly documented analysis of Japanese expansion, and a critical discussion of U. S. Far Eastern policy...