Word: standings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these days of tension ... we must all stand together . . . fulfill our obligations to the nation, regardless of political or partisan considerations," Franklin Roosevelt wrote last week, canceling a political engagement and making Republicans wonder how far non-political national unity is expected...
...dramatization of statutory neutrality's paradoxes was aimed at bringing Congress to the same view. Such standpatters as Ohio's Taft, Maine's White, Georgia's George and Iowa's Gillette (whose adverse vote defeated the Administration neutrality program last July) switched their stand on the export of arms to belligerents. From outright embargo a Senate majority shifted to cash & carry: to let belligerents buy U. S. arms, pay before shipment, and carry them off in foreign bottoms...
...scouring of the subversive underworld, rawboned Martin Dies of Texas, First Whip of the Red Hunting pack, never put on the stand a real, live, honest-to-goodness Communist. At his House Committee on Un-American Activities hearing last week in Washington he could have reached out and touched one: wispy, unobtrusive Earl Browder, general secretary (at $40 a week) of the Communist Party, its 1936 Presidential candidate...
...staying dry and leaving the roads passable for motorized advance; perhaps the German air-power exceeded all expectations, breaking Poland's wings before they left the ground, smashing defensive positions before they could be organized. Certainly all these factors combined to make half Poland a shambles and her stand at Warsaw a desperate siege, as ghastly as Madrid...
Impartial observers were compelled to conclude this week that Britain and France, and also Germany, were withholding their main air-power for definite reasons. Allied reasons apparently were: 1) to wait for the U. S. to clarify its neutrality stand, on which Allied plane replacements depend heavily; 2) reluctance to invite German "atrocities"; 3) delay until objectives on the Western Front were truly defined and prepared; 4) delay in the hope that the German people could be disaffected from A. Hitler by the War of Pamphlets...