Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary winter the District of Columbia has little snow, but snow had just fallen heavily in Washington. Gesturing dramatically toward the snow on the White House lawn, the President asked Mr. Adams how he had the heart to turn a million jobless men off into a desolation like that. It was a tough question to any man, a tougher question to ask a politician...
Congress appropriates $10,000 annually toward the support of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, a "parliament of man" founded 51 years ago to keep the world's legislative bodies informed about each other. Another $10,000 from Congress provides one of the juiciest bits of junket on the Washington political platter: an annual trip for a delegation to the union's meeting (last year at The Hague, this year at Oslo). A supposedly non-partisan caucus of the whole Congress picks the head of the delegation, who then, by hallowed custom, dishes out the junket to his party mates...
...practical fighting distance of 1) the Carolines, 2) the Philippines, 3) Japan-all well within an effective 1,500 mile radius of action. It would also make possible cooperation with Britain's air and seapower at Singapore in case Japanese tried to seize the Philippines and go on toward British and Dutch possessions in the East Indies...
Most likely spot for a new Eastern European crisis-which many Europeans expect in the spring-is the Polish Ukraine. A good start has already been made toward developing the crisis-a series of border incidents. It is possible that Poland will some day become provoked enough to strike back hard. Then Führer Hitler would probably bluntly announce that he is responsible for the integrity of the Ruthenian borders. France would be reminded of the Polish-French Alliance and Soviet Russia, fearful of what might happen later to her own Ukraine, might be inclined to urge Polish resistance...
Oddly, New York psychiatrists promptly condemned Greenfield, called him a murderer who had simply grown tired of caring for his imbecile son. Toward euthanasia, the medical profession is inclined to be kinder. Laymen were sympathetic, and even District Attorney Samuel John Foley, who will ask a Bronx grand jury for an indictment this week, admitted that he was reluctant to prosecute such "a sad case...