Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problems of the President's seminar on U. S. foreign policy were sharply pointed up by the arrival in the U. S. of an unofficial ambassador from Great Britain. The President took pains to say he would receive ex-Foreign Minister Anthony Eden as one more visiting Englishman. But it was perfectly clear that they would meet this week as one democrat talking to another in an autocrats' world, for Mr. Eden quickly made it obvious that he had come to the U. S. as an apologist for Britain. Personable Mr. Eden had many an advantage...
Though the Roosevelt-Wallace farm philosophies meshed, in 1932 Franklin Roosevelt did not get the ideas in question direct from Philosopher Wallace. Candidate Roosevelt took advice on the farm problem from others who shared the Wallace idea that farmers needed something more than price rigging. Among them was Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell of Columbia University, who in 1928 had tried to sell Al Smith a farm program which that salty sidewalk philosopher somehow couldn't swallow. Among them was red-faced, downright George Peek, who had grown interested in export subsidies while he and his partner Hugh Johnson were...
Unlike beefeating Britishers, an average Frenchman is not acutely Empire-minded, but last week Frenchmen from Algiers to Alsace took to the streets to protest against giving one square mile of French territory to Italy. This was France's answer to the "spontaneous" outcry in Rome's Chamber of Deputies fortnight ago that the French possessions of Tunisia, Corsica, Nice and Savoy be given to Italy...
...demonstrations and press fulminations grew in intensity, the situation took on a grave aspect. With as much publicity as possible an Italian royal decree was issued which provided special armaments appropriations of $65,000,000, a 20% increase over the regular military expenses already appropriated. Italy's Chief of Staff and Under Secretary for War, General Alberto Pariani. who has recently visited Berlin, was pointedly dispatched to inspect the defenses on the island of Sardinia, eight miles south of Corsica...
...behind the laughing looks and even tempers of Stillman nurses, new style, still lurks an occasional revolutionary thought. The following dialogue took place as the writer was looking at this morning Crimson. He was so shocked by it that he has since been prostrate in bed, his recovery perhaps indefinitely postponed...