Word: waverers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee and Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton that Denver should have Ronnebeck or nothing. Leader of the Commission was fiftyish Anne Evans, weathered, spirited daughter of the first territorial governor of Colorado, patron of the summer theatre festival at Central City (TIME, July 26). Less exacting Commissioners began to waver when local ar- chitects declared that the Zorach memorial would not fit into Denver's $1,000,000 Civic Center. Then Mayor Stapleton dismissed two old members of the Commission, appointed two new ones...
...word on every issue. Mr. Norris, who "may be wrong," in nearly every fight finds it impossible to believe that his opponents have honest motives. Disillusioned Mr. Norris never gives up a fight no matter how often it may be lost. He sticks when other Progressives in the Senate waver. All his successes are 'due to the fact that through years of weary waiting, his cocked eye-brow has never grown weary while he watchfully waited for an opportunity to come...
Captains Gaffney and Morrell then mentioned to Irwin that they would like to start playing again if he didn't want the field any more. "Yes", said the baton waver. As the referee approached for the fifth round the music ended in a triumphant and defiant thunder of drums, and the Band with proud smiles, retired in orderly retreat...
...interference by a Chinese revenue cutter with a Japanese or Korean smuggler's craft "will be regarded as an act of piracy on the high seas, and will be treated accordingly."* Though China's face was thus slapped again & again by Japan, Generalissimo Chiang did not waver in his policy of always turning the Christian other cheek. He even had Chinese police beat up and jail hundreds of Chinese students when they demonstrated in Peiping, Shanghai and Tientsin against Japan. At Tokyo's behest, Nanking has dissolved scores of local offices of the Kuomintang, which...
During the talk, a long distance call was put through by Prince Paul to Prague. At the other end of the wire Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Dr. Eduard Benes hotly insisted that Rumania and Yugoslavia, which with Czechoslovakia comprise the "Little Entente." should not waver in their traditional resistance to a Habsburg Restoration...