Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harrison announced himself 100% behind the President; rumors continued that George had shifted to the Administration side; Carter Glass said, out of the right side of his mouth: "Naturally, I would prefer to be on friendly terms with the White House...
...adversary to be wantonly aroused. The President stepped as delicately as Agag. Meanwhile, he tried to prevent Republicans from forming a solid front against his foreign policy: to his councils this week he summoned Alf M. Landon and his 1936 running mate, Publisher Frank Knox, as earnest that the White House was prepared to practice national unity, whatever isolationist Republicans in the Senate might...
...road to war. Their votes and influence only two months ago had balked a then-irritable and often angry Franklin Roosevelt as he sought the embargo's repeal. They had forced adjournment without new neutrality legislation. And Borah had been their spokesman, as he quietly insisted in a White House night conference that he knew there would be no war-his sources of information were "better than" Secretary Hull...
Arnold William Pekowsky, Anthony Louis Pellegrini, George Notman Prince, George Shattuck Richardson, Kenneth Irving Richter, Preston Thomas Roberts, Jr., William Joseph Shea, Morris Victor Shelanski, Robert Breckenbridge Sherwood, Donald Baxter Sparrow, John Leslie Stephenson, Robert Platt Ulin, Marc Anthony White, Joseph Abraham Zilber
...unfortunate place on the map, between two countries which have more than once collaborated in partitioning it; 2) no natural frontiers; 3) desperate agrarian problems, aggravated by lack of markets and a surplus population; 4) explosive minorities (approximately 3,300,000 Jews, 750,000 Germans, 1,500,000 White Russians, 5,000,000 Ukrainians in a population of 34,500,000) ; 5) precarious political conflicts, kept in check only by the Poles' fervent nationalism. Thus traditional suspicions of Germany and Russia have determined Poland's "unpredictable" foreign policy; unhealthy world economic conditions have determined its domestic ills...