Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treaty (1930) put the Navy's future into a diplomatic straitjacket. In the name of peace and disarmament, President Hoover whittled away at its appropriation year after year, almost brought its building program to a standstill. It was Admiral Pratt's grim duty to stand by and watch the U. S. fleet (except for capital ships) dwindle from supposed parity with Great Britain to actual inferiority to Japan. Last June Admiral Pratt was retired and Admiral William Harrison Standley succeeded him as Chief of Naval Operations (TIME, May 8). With a President in the White House friendly...
...perverts, their lips and cheeks blushing with rouge, their eyes darkened with mascara, their hair flowing long. In their cells were found heaps of feminine underclothes, nightgowns, perfume, lipsticks, suntan powder. They were confined to the laundry during work hours, but at other times were not segregated. Unless close watch was kept on these tainted characters, other prisoners would fight as desperately for their favor as they would for a woman...
...appealed to the President and were given to understand that the Federal Trade Commission might be given power to protect small businessmen, to restore some of the teeth in the anti-trust laws. To be sure, the Trade Commission at General Johnson's invitation sent a man to watch the code making. But nothing happened. So last week, with Congress solidly in session again, Messrs. Borah and Nye went forth to battle on the Senate floor...
...your own knowledge know how nearly your watch show's correct time at this moment...
This week George Graham Rice will have on the newsstands a successor to his defunct Iconoclast-a weekly called Rice's Financial Watchtower, 25? the copy. Just what George Graham Rice will watch from his tower was not clear, but his sheet is "millitant and pro-Roosevelt." Leading editorial in the first issue: "POWER & RESPONSIBILITY." Excerpt: "Any man who wields power without recognizing his responsibility is a menace. Big Finance has been that. . . . [The Big Financiers] have cut away the sand from under their own feet and have dug their graves. In another year or so new laws...