Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officers of both clubs met yesterday afternoon in Phillips Brooks House to talk over plans for this session. They decided that, since both organizations are founded on anti-war and anti-fascist principles, it is not only useless to remain separate, but that such a merger would greatly strengthen them in their fight against...
...Premier, after all, did his first big job as War Minister. Prior to 1914 he persuaded the Queen and Parliament to strengthen the Dutch frontier so heavily that the German General Staff reputedly scrapped a set of plans which was to have sent their War machine crashing across The Netherlands as well as Belgium. Today since the solution of many a World problem may again be sought in war, Premier Colijn is suspected of having tentatively and secretly reversed the most fundamental policy of The Netherlands: neutrality...
...anticlimax of his life. As a member of the Red Cross Mission during Kerensky's term of office, deeply influenced by Major Raymond Robins, he understood the meaning of revolutionary developments that baffled and outraged Allied diplomats, generals and political experts. A natural democrat, he tried to strengthen Kerensky's government. To forestall the Bolsheviki, he made available for famed oldtime anti-Tsarist martyrs, a million dollars of his personal fortune. The money was to be used for propaganda among the soldiers, urging them to continue the War on the grounds that German victory would mean a return...
Because of Germany's air rearmament the House prepared to vote an extra $25,000,000 to strengthen Britain...
...instinctive portrait evoked is that, I regret to say, of Strube's Little Man [see cut].* I see a small, kindly, bewildered, modest, obstinate, and very lovable little person. . . . Upon this first impression a more noble presentation imposes itself, and the contours of Strube's Little Man expand and strengthen into the firm, fine features of Mr. Stanley Baldwin. In some such outward semblance do I visualize the solidity, the good humor, the honesty, the inconsequence, and the indolence of our race...