Word: american
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rights guaranteed by it, have been invaded by "economic agencies" on one hand, and by greed for bureaucratic and governmental power on the other. Battles against business exploitation proved that the U. S. had no system of laissez faire; battles like that against the spoils system demonstrated the American system's "live sense of opposition to the subtle approach of political tyranny...
...having failed to do anything effective to help Manchuria, Ethiopia* or Spain and not having even discussed the disappearance of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia or Poland,† it could check anything at this late date. But a novel project was nevertheless afoot. With Argentina as their spokesman, the six South American nations still remaining in the League (Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador) demanded that the Soviet Union be expelled and threatened to resign unless the League kicked the Communists...
...article containing this piece of super-gloom was by Emil Helfferich, onetime "Maritime Adviser to the Führer" who became board chairman of the North German Lloyd and Hamburg American Lines when the Nazis lumped them under the same directorate in 1933. Herr Helfferich urged that the Government aid stagnant German export-import firms by permitting them to discharge superfluous employes (illegal under the Nazi job-protection laws); by letting them use "rent free" the Government warehouses in which German clogged exports are now piling up; and by directly providing "necessary capital to keep them afloat." If all this...
...Chicago's Walter Jacobs & Albert Weiss: the open pair championship of the American Contract Bridge League, outplaying in other pairs of top-notch players from 21 States, Canada and South America; at Pittsburgh...
...Hearst was getting on and Joe Connolly was expected to get the empire in order before the old man died. He amputated radio stations, shuffled executives, chopped the Chicago Herald and Examiner down to tabloid size. But Connolly could not be everywhere at once. When the Herex and Chicago American units of the American Newspaper Guild struck, Connolly put his cool, alert assistant, Jacob ("Gorty") Gortatowsky, at the conference table...