Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prepared to use diplomatic if not economic pressure on international bullies. It left no doubt whatever that he intended to frame U. S. foreign policy to encourage peace not only by being a good neighbor. but by restraining bad neighbors. Next day his own Secretary of State Cordell Hull took the first step to put this new policy into effect...
Labor Society. Even less like a fighting machine was the convention out of session. A joy to Denver's hotelmen, the unionists ate expensively, drank extensively, took all the best rooms and confined their fun mainly to poker. Mr. Green stayed in an $18-per-day suite in the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where he was served by a union waiter, had his bed made by a non-union chambermaid. Across the street in the Brown Palace, Michael Carrozzo of the Hod Carriers, Building & Common Laborers' Union had a $15-per-day suite. Two delegates from the International Union...
...action were futile, though so strenuous at one time that Bill Green broke his gavel pounding for order. Apparently the plan was to stall until Typographer Howard departed for the gathering of C. I. O. leaders this week in Atlantic City, where, as Mr. Howard observed dryly, he usually took a vacation "at this time of year...
...news for a day or two to let one of the generals catch up with the other. Last week General Isogai was reported furious because Tokyo had not observed this etiquette but had made the faux pas of announcing that General Itagaki captured Paoting recently on the day he took it, instead of holding the news for release two days later simultaneously with news that General Isogai had taken Tsangchow. Japanese in Tientsin, where the conventions were properly observed, learned of and celebrated both victories the same...
...miscellaneous jobs, which in the depression days of 1932 took about 40 percent of the class, have fallen to a more 7 percent. Industrial finance and banking is not a very steady figure during the last few years, Lombard said, but this field is generally good for about a quarter of the class...