Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Being the front man for a U. S. feudal barony is a job that gives Dick Kleberg plenty of work. For despite certain indications of independence, King is very much a part of the U. S. Its stake in politics may be judged by the fact that a if decline in beef prices shaves $200,000 from the King profits that year, that taxes have more than once exceeded the King payroll...
...language which, in addition to the titanic shouts of Rev. Reginald ("Magnavox") Naugle, was echoing through Pennsylvania last week, hurled by the major candidates: Democrat George H. Earle and Republican James J. Davis for Senator, Democrat Charles Alvin Jones and Republican Arthur H. James for Governor. At stake in Pennsylvania were not only 34 House seats, a Senatorship and the entire State regime, but perhaps a balance of power in the 1940 Electoral College...
Cantonese form the majority of Chinese living abroad and these are sure to quicken their cash contributions of millions to the Generalissimo now that Canton is at stake. White correspondents in Tokyo flashed that the Japanese would have preferred a European war to the peace of Munich, since war would have completely tied British hands in the Far East. Tokyo was watching Joseph Stalin as well as Neville Chamberlain, and when the purge of the Soviet Far East Army officers got under way recently, Japan concluded she need not keep so many troops in North China and Manchukuo facing...
...London it was presently announced that Sir Robert had received "most specific" assurances. It was also pointed out that the British investment stake in South China is a small fraction of what it is in other parts of China, notably in the Shanghai International Settlement, thus far respected by Japan...
...would have been able to seize Hong Kong at the end of the British lifeline, which vibrated slightly last week with a fizzled putsch in Siam. Perhaps Singapore also would have fallen if the war had lasted even a few months. With these in Japanese hands the whole British stake in the Far East might have been lost, some ?500,000,000 or more. In case of war German guns already installed within range of Gibraltar might have cut the British lifeline there, and Italy might have used her navy & air force to chop up the same lifeline at Suez...