Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gibbons then flatly proposed that the U. S. should entrust the Philippines to Japan as a mandate under the League of Nations. But he made clear that he proposed this step chiefly because he thought the U. S. might some day decide to grant "complete independence" to the Philippines and that as soon as that were done Japan would gobble the islands. Better a mandate than...
...step is one which offers opportunity for important expansion and coordination of the work of the various committees of Brooks House and at the same time furthers a worthy endeavor...
...Bartholdy," Professor Taussing went on, "has recently taken a step which may seem inconsistent with his previous activities, but which is quite in accordance with his continued strong wish for bettering international relations. He has proposed that Germany now give notice that she will avail herself in two years of the option to withdraw from the League of Nations. Germany was admitted to the League long after the war had ceased and has taken an active part in its work only during the last few years. Dr. Bartholdy feels, however, that the League has not accomplished what it might...
...when it was feared Germany would establish a submarine base there. Until last week they were a neglected appendage of the Navy Department which used them as a coaling base. Their transfer to civil government by President Hoover was generally regarded as the first step in a program to demilitarize U. S. insular possessions...
...Government charged that after standardizing their products the combined bolt & nut men, controlling 95% of the business, had carried the Hoover doctrine a step too far, had fixed prices by means of discounts, allowances and "a system of freight equalization for preferred customers." Among the associated companies, which did an annual business of $75,000,000, were: Bethlehem Steel Co., Automatic Screw Machine Products Co., Erie Bolt & Nut Co.. Pacific Coast Steel Corp., Wrought Iron Co. of America. Defending counsel included James Francis Burke, counsel for the Republican National Committee, and onetime Governor Nathan L. Miller of New York...