Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...equip for instant combat an "initial protective force" of 400,000 soldiers (Regular Army plus National Guard), the President himself took action. He ordered a new navy dirigible built (see p. 19). He announced he had ordered a survey of all Federal lands and plants capable of being used toward Rearmament. Mentioned specifically were a War-time armorplate plant in West Virginia and the old New Orleans Navy Yard. The latter might serve the newly-formed Atlantic Squadron...
...opposite strategy, guerrilla warfare, as tactics fit only for the Eighth Route (former Communist) Army fighters. Neutral observers report, however, that the Japanese have been slain four to one in their skirmishes with the Communists. Last week, after retreating from the Japanese for 16 months, leaving them sprawling toward the interior on all China's vital communication lines, Chiang publicly proclaimed a policy of large-scale guerrilla, hit-&-run attacks...
...twice to London. Last week amends were about to be made. The Prime Minister & Mrs. Chamberlain, accompanied by the Foreign Secretary & Lady Halifax, are to spend November 23-25 in Paris. Under the outward show of a "purely social visit," Mr. Chamberlain and M. Daladier will try to advance toward "general European appeasement" from the stage reached at Munich...
...possibly create his own coalition of liberal Democrats and Republicans. Succeeding here, he would be able to push through the principal legislation on his agenda--broad extension of old-age security--while at the same time consolidating his constructive measures of the past. And, by veering more toward the middle-of-the-road policies decreed by the electorate, he would mend his fences for 1940, enabling himself to name his successor or to run for the third term if a suitable personality does not emerge. The future of the New Deal lies with its leader, the President...
...each department or division passes judgment on its concentrators; and while the are no general regulations, a student is usually excused from writing more than the equivalent of one thesis in his field. But no such leniency is allowed toward course papers in other subjects, since they are outside a single department's jurisdiction. This leaves some men in the simple departments of study and a large number in the combination fields with more papers than they can handle, and very little they can do about...