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Word: weakening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communist Party of the U. S. A. upholds the democratic achievements of the American people. It opposes with all its power any clique, group, circle, faction, or party, which conspires or acts to subvert, undermine, weaken or overthrow, any or all institutions of American democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Rain Check on Revolution | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

Regarding the influence this might have on the often-rumored third term of President Roosevelt, Holcombe declared: "I have never supposed that Mr. Roosevelt would consider running for a third consecutive term. But no President would want to weaken himself in his second term by making statements about the future which were unnecessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Progressives to Have a Better Chance Than in 1924 | 4/30/1938 | See Source »

With most returns in, it appeared certain last week that Progressive candidates had lost often enough to weaken Homer Martin's prestige considerably. In Flint, Mich., focal point of the General Motors empire, with 30.000 union members, the Martin forces won their only important victory. Martin and Frankensteen took the stump personally, and their ticket was returned by nearly 2-to-1. But Detroit's bustling West Side local, with another 30,000 members, re-elected Unity Leader Walter Reuther by 4-to-1. Roland J. Thomas, president of the Chrysler local, a vice president of the international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gears Ground | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...Bolsheviks now executed. Said she: "When they arrest someone in Russia, he's sure to be guilty, for in the Soviet Union they always investigate carefully beforehand." She heard a Czech Communist ask venerable Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, Soviet President, "Was the Red Army weakened by the execution of its leaders?" President Kalinin asked: "What do you think? Would it weaken any army to remove those who are confessedly guilty of weakening the faith of the army in itself? What do you think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Make America Better! | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...threatening to assassinate her-that she has ironically been called their biggest backer) might team up in coalition with His Majesty's Government. In any case Rumanian election returns seemed to prove that the recent visit to Bucharest of French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos has done nothing to weaken German Nazi influence in the Kingdom of Carol von Hohenzollern, nothing to strengthen Democracy in the Balkans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Nice for Nazis | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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