Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always favored an uncompromising attitude, even should that lead to war. . . . That is, the Communist Party! The violence and intransigence of this party sought to paralyze my action. When its newspapers, its orators coarsely attacked Chamberlain who worked with admirable faith for safety and peace, did that not weaken the position of France? When they addressed daily challenges to the French Government did that facilitate our action? When they launched anathema against governments before whom we found ourselves in perilous negotiation, did they not risk hindering it and precipitating...
...years ago, when Scripps-Howard sold the Youngs town Telegram to the Vindicator, the chain's hold on Ohio began to weaken. Ohio was the birthplace of the late Edward Willys Scripps's great journalistic venture. Of its six once prosperous Ohio dailies, Scripps-Howard now has but three: the Cleveland Press, patriarch of the chain, the Cincinnati Post, the Columbus Citizen...
Most striking feature of Arthur Morgan's testimony was his willingness to weaken his case rather than tell half-truths. Witness Morgan first declared that TVA's General Manager John Blandford was "one of the little clique that run things," and lacked the background necessary for the job. Then Witness Morgan added that he himself hired Mr. Blandford away from a job as Cincinnati's public safety director, rued the choice later. In the same implacably veracious vein. Arthur Morgan pointed out that he: 1) signed board minutes which he now says were doctored by David Lilienthal...
...change in New Deal feeling. It was ordered in spite of Franklin Roosevelt by potent Paul McNutt. After a series of 10,000-mile telephone calls, High Commissioner McNutt decided that his own ambitions were more important than the President's purge. Defeat through division this autumn would weaken his machine. Van Nuys's charges of scandal might sully the fair McNutt name. The renomination of Frederick Van Nuys became an incident in the plans of McNutt...
...With hordes of lobbyists pouring into Washington to grab PWA allotments for their localities from the new Lend-Spend millions, the President announced that such lobbyists would only weaken their localities' cases...