Word: standing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proclaimed national emergency, the larger fact of war on the loose, the plight of the warring democracies and the widening sphere of the dictatorships (see p. 28). Casually, as though he were stating familiar trivia, he reaffirmed what he said last year: that the U. S. will not stand idly by if any expanding foreign power attempts to muscle in on Canada on the north or-he added last week-France's possessions in the Caribbean and South America...
...times of great emergency, men of the same belief must gather together for mutual counsel and action. If they fail to do this, all that they stand for will be lost...
This week Congress convenes in a momentous session to decide the U. S. stand on neutrality for the opening of World War II. This week a FORTUNE survey will show that: 1) two-thirds of the American people are against a strict U. S. isolationist policy; only 25% oppose all trade with belligerents; 2) 83% want Britain and France to win the war; 65% thought they could (before Russia came in); 3) 17% are willing to send U. S. armed forces to fight for the Allies, and 20% favor helping them by all means short of war. Further FORTUNE findings...
This attitude must be maintained, for it is America's hope. There will be a time of testing. The peace at any price stand will not always be so popular as it now is. Therefore we must convince ourselves now that no war is a holy war, that we might be leading for another great double-cross, that we might be fighting Mr. Chamberlain's instead of democracy...
...Yard, birthplace of Harvard, which now contains Freshman dormitories and College classrooms. To the north, across Cambridge Street, stretches the empire of the graduate schools and laboratories. On the south side of Massachusetts Avenue are the lairs of upperclassmen, reaching down to the Charles River, across which stand the Business School and Stadium...