Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is the way it is done. A banana is submerged half its length, vertically, by hand, from either beach or boat in any tropical waters...
Both the President and Secretary Hull had used dark forebodings of crisis again this summer in Europe as arguments for more latitude in the law. But the House took last week's developments in Poland and elsewhere just the other way. Despite strong pleas by Speaker Bankhead and Majority Leader Rayburn ("Is there any immorality in our shipping arms to a little weak country so it can defend itself?"), the House decided not to turn Franklin Roosevelt entirely loose. The Vorys amendment carried again by 214 to 173, the whole bill...
...While war fears rose in Britain and France, in Germany the people believed that their Führer was again going to have his way by simply threatening to fight. That was not the situation, however, reflected to the outside world by the German propaganda machine. A purported Hitler speech to a purported "War Council" that the Führer hastily appointed "leaked" through the Reichswehr and somehow got into the hands of French Rightist Deputy Henri de Kerillis, who also happens to be editor of L'Epoque...
...quoted as saying. "We cannot retreat now. Our backs are against the wall. It is not a question of knowing if I am right or wrong in posing so brutally the Danzig question. What is done is done, and we must accept the consequences. We must have our way, whatever the cost, in the few weeks which still separate us from the autumn months...
...Government off U. S. business' neck. One of these programs, a dramatic serial called The American Family Robinson, is over four years old, goes out twice a week or oftener over 250 stations by electrical Tanscription, talks Alger-book homilies, free enterprise and the American Way...