Word: tighten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hitler-"Never. You speak of your passionate love for peace. . . . Then suddenly you stiffen, you tighten your fists, you stick out your chin and you speak of Italian force...
...conflict between Japan and China is little affected. . . . Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started. The unexpectedly early victory at Hankow should be attributed to the august virtues of His Imperial Majesty, and at the same time to the brave efforts of the Japanese forces which participated. After victory, tighten your helmet strap...
These remarks brought to light a behind-the-scenes fight between Mr. Eccles and the Treasury. The Federal Reserve Chairman would relax restrictions on bank investments and use bank regulations and examinations as the Federal Reserve uses its reserve requirements: loosen them in depressions, tighten them in booms. Stoutly opposed to this are Acting Comptroller of the Currency Marshall Diggs, and former Comptroller J. F. T. O'Connor who resigned three months ago to run for Governor of California. Both Mr. O'Connor and Mr. Diggs prefer to consider investment and loan restrictions, as well as bank examinations...
...virtual dictator of Mexico. In rapid succession he dissolved his and Mexico's majority party, reorganized it to give the peasants and the army control, thus pulling labor's teeth. Next he shook up his Cabinet to make it 100% Cárdenas, shifted army heads to tighten his hold on the military and cracked down on labor by deciding that "useless" strikes are outlawed and he personally will determine which strikes are "useless...
...Universities were to raise their entrance standards there would be less need to tighten up on the scholastic requirements to stay in college; thus the problem would be attacked at its very roots, and many men would be spared the unnecessary pain of being "flunked out." It is unfair to handicap a man by admitting him to a college curriculum which he cannot met, and then send him home again with a feeling of inferiority...