Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Great Britain took a stand on Far Eastern policy as forceful as that of the outspoken U. S. In a long, sharp note, which greatly resembled Secretary of State Cordell Hull's New Year's demands on Japan, Britain plainly showed that "appeasement" does not extend to the Orient...
...conclusions: the "peace for our time," which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain believed he took home from Munich, was at best only an armistice; notwithstanding post-Munich pretenses, war has been postponed, not really averted, to a moment more unfavorable than ever for the democracies; if French and British diplomatic forces were not completely routed at Munich, they were certainly obliged hastily to retreat and sue for what President Roosevelt later called "peace by fear...
...riding in on a wave of prosperity, conservatives took over New Zealand, and though the Labor Party periodically showed its head (there were serious strikes in 1913, 1916, 1921-22), dominated politics and policies for the next 23 years...
Under Michael Savage the Government took over, by a series of socialistic laws, direct control of railroads, broadcasting, reserve banking, iron and steel output. Wages were jacked up, hours cut. Unionism was made compulsory. Rising prices were checked. Last September Prime Minister Savage said there was plenty more to be done if New Zealanders wished to do it. An October election gave him the mandate, whereupon he at once originated the program which had businessmen so perturbed last week: exchange control...
...straight victories. The colonel was as pleased as Punch. His Yankees were toasted as the greatest team in baseball history, the only outfit that ever won three World Series in a row. His farm teams, too, were tops. Of his 14 minor-league teams, eight won their pennants, one took the Little World Series, and four others got into playoffs...