Word: strove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refugees told tales of terrorism which could not be checked. As soon as the plebiscite result was known, Saar Nazis rushed to non-Nazi Saar newsorgans, hung crépe upon the doors. Even the staffs of 100% Catholic papers fled pellmell. Most Saar police at once went Nazi, strove to keep their jobs by peaching on fellow policemen whom they claimed were non-Nazi. Of 120 police under suspicion about 30 were collared, seemed destined for Nazi concentration camps. Finally no check on Nazi terrorism was possible last week because the League's Saar Governing Commission dared...
...months have statesmen of the Great Powers striven so hard and so confusedly as they strove last week, turning the concert of nations into a jazz symphony of Peace & War, now sweet, now wild...
...perhaps as well that the man who strove so hard to set the nations free now lies dead. Democracy has fied the chancelleries of Europe, and the cloud of war is rising over the horizon. The very things which President Wilson in his sincerity attempted to abolish have sprung from the Treaty he killed himself to make...
...good digestion, a good education and a bad illness." The revolution in U. S. political psychology that rode him into power in 1932 had been coming a long time. "Theodore Roosevelt, who knew little or nothing of economics, sensed it; Woodrow Wilson, who knew little or nothing of finance, strove to anticipate it; the World War attempted to postpone it; Harding and Coolidge tried to destroy it, and Hoover to ignore it. ... Roosevelt is simply a symptom of that process and not its cause." The Old Deal is dead. "Whatever happens, the New Deal will go on-as either...
...investigation of the matter reveals that the press is catching at a straw. Its only danger, if any, lies in the possible exploitation in the misty future of an unfortunately worded phrase. As General Johnson strove to make clear in his recent address at Chicago, neither President Roosevelt nor the NRA has harbored the slightest intention of limiting or licensing newspapers in any way. On the contrary, the present administration has thus far distinguished itself by its willingness, even its desire, to see the light of publicity thrown unrestricted on every phase of its activity. But even if the chief...