Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador Ronald Lindsay, Prime Minister Chamberlain indicated to the Commons that his Government was not so much approving a trade agreement as trading an economic treaty in the interests of immediately valuable political solidarity. "I feel sure," hinted Mr. Chamberlain, "that the House will warmly welcome this further step toward an agreement between the two Governments." Tory Oppositionist Leopold S. Amery promptly warned a meeting of the Empire Industries' Association: "I can hardly imagine that such an agreement is likely to revolutionize the American outlook on foreign affairs, so that she will be willing to do battle either...
...cracking down on his old enemy, Monopoly, the President did not do much to strengthen the theory that his attitude toward Business has changed markedly in the last six weeks. To Business, however, there was encouragement in the rumor at week's end that he planned soon to announce plans for starting a nationwide housing program financed by private capital and that the plans would include naming an outstanding capitalist, someone like U. S. Steel's Edward Stettinius Jr. or General Electric's Gerard Swope, to head the drive...
...negative one of defeating the President's Court plan. What it would accomplish in its less promising second session was still unpredictable last week but two things at least looked certain. One was that under the stimulus of Recession, Congress was likely to show an independence toward the White House unprecedented since 1933. The other was that Vice President John Nance Garner in the Senate and Speaker William Brockman Bankhead in the House were going to have their hands full making Congress do much of anything before it moves to adjourn, presumably about...
...Recession had caused the President's attitude toward Business to undergo a marked change, there was every reason for Congress' attitude toward Business to change even more drastically and more sincerely. Back in Washington after nearly three months of putting their ears to the ground, its members felt that they knew even better than the President what the country wanted. Whether or not the President means to run for a third term, most Congressmen's hearts are set on re-election and a Roosevelt Recession would be the worst possible 1938 platform. Major administrative hold on both...
...About midnight, from our front lines two scouting parties totaling seven or eight men each began a careful reconnoiter toward Soochow. They stealthily followed two large bodies of Chinese troops retreating toward the city. The Soochow gates stood wide open and the Chinese forces marched in and stacked their bayoneted rifles, whereupon fifteen Japanese followed...