Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party now, will not be much more than a preliminary gun next week. By the end of May there will be 95 Republican candidates in the field and by the end of July, 156. To Joe Martin, the candidate is always more important than the issue, the place more vital than the program, but by last week he and grey-haired Mr. Venable, whose job is to pre-audit votes for the Congressional Committee as Emil Hurja did for Franklin Roosevelt in 1936, were at least assured of where the autumn's battle would be briskest...
...husband, Generalissimo Chiang, directs the desperate resistance of China. "The strain on the Generalissimo now is gigantic, almost superhuman," said Mme Chiang last week. "I feel that I must do everything in my power to help him hold up under that strain, because I believe his leadership is vital right...
...continued : "I use the word 'may' deliberately, since, in such an instance, there is no auto-matic obligation to take military action. It is, moreover, right that this should be so, for nations cannot be expected to incur automatic military obligations save for areas where their vital interests are concerned...
...soon some 18,000 workers in five factories of Citroën Motors ("The Ford Of France") went on a sit-down strike and, without stating specific grievances, hoisted red flags. While they continued to sit, quarter-hour sympathy sit-downs were staged at the Farman, Caudron and other vital French warplane factories. All this was extremely peaceable, without riots or even the summoning of police, but everyone remembered that in 1936 over 1,000,000 workers walked out as a means of: 1) pressing the first Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Léon Blum to legislate promised vital...
...Chinese last week continued their magnificent defense of their so-called "Hindenburg Line" (TIME, March 21), protecting the vital east-west Lunghai Railroad, showed stubborn resistance particularly at Kaifeng, some 300 miles inland from the Yellow Sea. Jubilantly, Chinese General Hsu Pei-ken, press officer to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, declared, "The Japanese are in the soup...