Word: toward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt's policy toward Europe was now definitely known to place the defensive frontier of democracy in France. Toward Asia, Mr. Roosevelt wanted to extend the U. S. defensive frontier to Guam, but the House had stopped him at Wake Island. Senators who disapprove of Mr. Roosevelt's frontier extensions fell huffing & puffing upon his air corps expansion as unjustifiable...
John Nance Garner* (leaning over the dais toward Franklin Roosevelt and speaking in tones which the microphones picked up) : "Don't you want to get out of here...
Appease Stalin? Generally accepted as Britain's No. i reason for abandoning Czecho-Slovakia last fall was the antipathy of the British ruling class toward the U.S.S.R., CzechoSlovakia's nearest friend. Even though they know that probably no combination in Europe could beat France, Britain and Russia, most British bigwigs hate and fear "the Bolshies." Significant it was, therefore, when Prime Minister Chamberlain and most of his Cabinet turned up last week at a Soviet Embassy reception given by Soviet Ambassador Ivan M. Maisky. Laborite James Ramsay MacDonald was the last British Prime Minister to tread that ground...
...radio stations cut from ten to three; rare Hearst treasures have been knocked down for $708,846; the value of all Hearst properties, estimated (too generously) at $200.000,000 in 1935, reduced to a fraction of that figure.-Just how far the public thinks the Hearst empire has progressed toward dissolution is neatly summed up in this lyric currently sung on Broadway by Funnyman Jimmy Durante...
...Retirement Annuity for each girl with the Teachers' Insurance and Annuity Association. Last year they joined the A.F. of L. Dining Hall Employees Union, and, since both Jenny and Suzie face problems in connection with their Pensions, they have been agitating within the union for some action toward the solution of their difficulties...