Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another great business depression. . . . But ... I have reached the firm conviction that the domestic problems which face us today are essentially different from those which faced us four years ago. Many measures are required for their solution. One of these measures ... in the present juncture is a determined movement toward a balanced budget...
Read to both Houses by their clerks, the message started with a discussion of the business recession and legislative means toward ending it. Said the President: "The fundamental situation is not to be compared with the far different conditions of 1929. . . . Obviously an immediate task is to try to increase the use of private capital to increase employment. . . . Private enterprise, with co-operation on the part of Government, can advance to higher levels of industrial activity than those reached earlier this year. . . . Such advance will assure balanced budgets. . . . If private enterprise does not respond, Government must take up the slack...
...Great Powers.* The so-called "Big Three"-Their Excellencies Norman Davis of Washington, Anthony Eden of London and Yvon Delbos of Paris-decided to wind up the Conference at once if possible, joined in drafting for this purpose a resolution in which the Conference was to adopt toward Japan an attitude of purely verbal ostracism with these words: "It is clear that the Japanese concept of the issues and interests involved in the conflict under reference is vitally different from the concept of most other nations in 'he world...
...Candid camera shots at Brussels showed last week (see cut) that British Foreign Secretary Eden elevates his teacup so close to his face that it almost covers his nose, extends his fifth finger to the full; while Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff keeps his cup nearly level, protrudes his lips toward it, bending his head and sucking in the tea. Long-reach cookie snatching, by delegates leaning across in front of other delegates who already had their cookies and kept standing close to the table, was also in order at Brussels...
...midfield, with the Navy defenses necessarily spread out to guard against the Crimson pas threat, the mouse trap type of deception worked quite well. But once inside the twenty, when the Midshipmen secondary could accordion in a bit and the linemen could therefore risk being mousetrapped and charge in toward the center, the attack was stopped dead. In order to execute a mousetrap play, there must necessarily be a delay while the victimized lineman is bing trapped, a delay usually effected by ball handling. But against a more powerful forward wall that is making a goal-line stand, this type...