Word: strengtheners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because the League of Nations is itself founded on these principles that the international action of France is founded on the League. It seeks to strengthen the links between the nations that meet at Geneva to assure to the covenant she has signed more & more force and effectiveness. It seeks to organize mutual assistance. It seeks to halt the armaments race and this country will not cease to repeat her appeal until she has been heard...
...great-skill, invention, vigilance and effort successfully to develop and maintain such a business in the face of its highly competitive nature ... and particularly the competition of RCA ... by reason of its financial power and patent monopoly " By underhanded acts, complained Philco, RCA "is seeking further to extend and strengthen its domination and control of said industry...
Often heard in fireside fulminations is the charge that the New Deal is deliberately and cunningly undermining the property rights of U. S. citizens. Last week a prime New Deal agency asked Congress for broad legislation not to weaken property rights but to strengthen them. The reform proposals were contained in another Securities & Exchange Commission report based upon Commissioner William Orville Douglas' diligent investigation of protective committees and reorganizations (TIME, May 18). Mr. Douglas concluded that U. S. investors had suffered woefully from irresponsible corporate trustees, legal representatives of scattered and inarticulate bondholders...
This week the New York Times blossomed with a full-page advertisement featuring a cablegram from Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine: "We appeal to American Jewry to share the undaunted but calm courage of the Jewish community of Palestine and to strengthen their efforts by contributing generously to the funds of the United Palestine Appeal. . . . The Jewish community is behaving admirably despite the trying provocation...
...Barthou's theory that to try to please everyone was nonsense and that the enemy of France is always going to be Germany. Launching swift efforts to strengthen old French alliances against the Reich and forge new ones, venerable but vivacious Louis Barthou had a glorious time dashing from capital to capital. In Geneva he sat down with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff and negotiated the terms of an Eastern Pact of Mutual Assistance between France and Russia to which Germany and Poland were invited to adhere (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934) The pact amounted to an agreement that...