Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry worse off than in March, oilmen again looked to Washington. With chaos, caused by Texas, looming, Governors Murray of Oklahoma and Landon of Kansas met in Oklahoma City and sent emissaries to Washington to help draft a bill which would make Secretary of the Interior Ickes virtual dictator over their industry with power to bring the East Texas or any other field into line. Wirt Franklin, president of the Independent Petroleum Association, turned up in Washington from Oklahoma and declared that "not only every oil State but every element in the oil industry, including factions which have rarely agreed...
...Today through Hitler's virtual dictatorship, Germany for the first time in all history is practically united. It is organically united through the substitution of central authority at Berlin in place of local authority in seventeen different states. It is even united in sentiment in the sense that a terrorized minority fears to oppose the triumphant National Socialists...
...limiting loans and surrenders to perhaps 50% of the normal allowance. Still others wanted to keep the half-holiday in force. Not only did the commissioners disagree with each other but so did life insurance officers. A committee of five stayed up all night arguing. The conclusion was for virtual retention of the half-holiday on the following terms...
...took the Olympic oath for all U. S. entrants in last year's Olympic Games; among them Rear Admiral Moffett, the vigorous, 63-year-old seadog who commanded the U. S. S. Chester during the U. S. occupation of Veracruz in 1914, and who later became the virtual custodian of the Navy's airship program...
...designation 'puppet state' for Manchukuo. That was one of the errors of the Lytton Report. There is a certain analogy between the Japanese-Manchukuo relationship and the United States-Cuba relationship, but there is also this difference: Japan did not first conquer Manchukuo and then give it virtual independence. Manchukuo sprang into being as an independent state. As such it is not a protectorate, just a friendly nation. . . . Your country has not made the sacrifices in developing its neighbors that Japan has made in Manchuria. I question whether the United States would permit the territory contiguous...