Word: vivendi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sign the Alliance with England and France, Germany will have to ... seek a modus vivendi with the Western Powers which would be later very dangerous for us. If on the contrary we accept the Reich's offer of collaboration, the latter will not hesitate to crush Poland; England and France will be thereupon drawn fatally into war. There will result a thorough destruction of Western Europe, and remaining outside the conflict we can advantageously await our hour...
...third-party chieftains and some 40 of their friends and associates at a pleasant farmhouse near Hudson, Wis. The meeting on the Potomac looked like simple Roosevelt curiosity. The barbecue on the Hudson farm looked like the beginning of a national alliance, or at least of local modus vivendi, between two once faithful Roosevelt allies...
...arrangement to keep the 50 tycoons content: They should discuss their reports with his New Dealers in order to appreciate the official attitude, should discuss them with him in person, then, having been enlightened, revise their reports and publish them. This seemed to the President an excellent modus vivendi and no one doubted that it would work unless the tycoons, after conference with New Dealers, still insisted on being critical of Administration policies...
...much better for it. When he fell in love with another woman his wife insisted on a separation; until he could get a divorce he and Amy Catherine Robbins lived cheerfully outside the pale. Since his second wife was fragile and Wells was increasingly amorous they established a modus vivendi. "In theory, I was now to have passades." He hints he had them but is reticent about the details...
...First National groups. At this Detroit balked, seeing a possibility of Eastern dominance. But in the Michigan Plan, calling for segregation of frozen and liquid assets in both State and National banks, bankers believed they had not only a solution for their own troubles but also a modus vivendi for closed banks in other states. Deposits would be divided in approximately the same proportions as assets. The liquid branch would be operated normally, subject to certain restrictions at the start; the frozen branch would await a thaw. With both State and Federal legislation required it seemed certain that the holiday...