Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still is a cold analysis of the consequences of war in the light of historical evidence. What is the effect of an armed conflict upon a nation's birth rate, its mortality rate, its political organization, its ethics and culture? Democracy may be worth saving no matter what the aftermath. But perhaps the very effects of a war may destroy all the conditions necessary to its existence...
...spokesmen, President Howard Coonley of National Association of Manufacturers (also Chairman of the Advisory Committee of American Standards Association, which is trying to eliminate bottlenecks by promoting standardization) took time out to broadcast : ". . . We have no illusions. . . . Economic chaos and years of crushing depression are [war's] inevitable aftermath. . . . ultimately, no one can escape the ruin...
...France, any more than a triumphant Germany, would permit neutral America to dictate the terms upon which the second Great War is to end. This country had its chance in 1918, and had it been as interested in the peace as it was in the war, Versailles and its aftermath might never have happened. If America wishes, as President Conant seems to desire, to participate in the next peace--as it did not do in the last--and to bar a solution based on vindictiveness or unreason, then America must herself...
Rumania was aggrandized in the aftermath of Versailles with not only Transylvania, but Bessarabia, a fertile parcel of old Russia. This might become a Soviet objective-more than Rumania could hope to defend, especially with Nazi pressure from the West...
...Tenderloin. Only this month, while Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was guest master of ceremonies in the absence of the Lobby?, Founder Dave Elman, a visiting porcupine wrapped himself around a microphone, cut the show off the air for a half-minute. But none of these little mishaps had any serious aftermath...