Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contained two generals. Marshal Pétain, defender of Verdun, was the new Minister of War. General Victor Denain, onetime military aide to President Doumergue, is the new Minister for Air. The Cabinet of Premiers' first move was to announce that the plight of Austria was quite as vital to France as anything happening at home. Premier Doumergue and Ministers Herriot, Tardieu, and Barthou formed a sort of Directorate of Four to take up the problem at once. This was followed by an official footnote to reassure Frenchmen that this group had no intention of becoming a Dictatorship like...
...depreciating the exchange value of the dollar, could have no automatic effect on the general level of internal prices. The point is important, since the Administration at one time undoubtedly entertained false hopes for the crude Warren scheme, but it is difficult to see how it is of vital consequence. When he comes to demonstrating the positive dangers in the policy, Professor Sprague beats around any number of bushes without ever coming to the point. He apparently felt, in writing the articles, that when the effort to raise internal prices by exchange depreciation was seen to be unsuccessful, the Administration...
...group of powers hostile to Germany; here his strongest support may be expected from Italy and France, although I should not be surprised to see England adopt an aggressive policy toward Germany before either of the two former powers do. This seemingly illogical behavior by the nation whose vital interests are the least affected may be explained by the fact that in all likelihood the English would move rapidly in order to forestall any cash moves by Nazi hotheads like Goring which would precipitate a situation highly conducive to war. In addition to blocking any such German attempts in advance...
...Approved a proposal that a study be made of establishing more industrial (vertical) unions, like U. M. W., within the A. F. of L. The A. F. of L., based on a craft (horizontal) union system, soft-pedaled this vital labor issue at its last convention (TIME...
...university which has already incurred scholarly suspicion by the closing of its library cannot afford to permit a temporary situation, easily misinterpreted, to become permanent. Both economy and the difficulties of choice have a limit, and as a vital scholarly need must limit the first, so should three years have limited the second. Under Professors de Wulf and Gilson scholastic philosophy filled a prominent place in the course list; that place should not be vacant much longer...