Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During the day it is His Britannic Majesty's Government, while from nightfall to daybreak it is the rebels' government," cracked Arab villagers. The Oozlebarts, operating under an "unknown generalissimo" with headquarters at Damascus, have set up their own civil and military courts. Arab villagers prefer to take their squabbles to Oozlebart civil courts, which apply Islamic law and charge nothing (Palestine court fees are notoriously high). Oozlebart military courts dispense quick justice, sometimes death, to Arabs caught selling land to Jews...
...without misgivings Assistant Secretary of State George S. Messersmith appeared two months ago before the House Appropriations Committee to ask Congress to enable his Department to do something "we would perhaps prefer not to do." What Mr. Messersmith asked for and got was money to establish two new State Department cells, a Division of Cultural Relations and a Division of International Communications, both aimed straight at "relations with our Latin American republics." Last week Secretary Hull and Under-Secretary Welles announced that the Division of Cultural Relations will be launched forthwith. Duties: "The exchange of professors, teachers, and students . . . cooperation...
...Constitution of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics of Russia." Last week Justice Steuer turned down Mr. Seabury, upheld I.I.A.U.'s half-blind, brusquely able Attorney Louis B. Boudin, ordered Metropolitan to bargain. Sole comfort for Metropolitan was in Justice Steuer's stipulation that agents who prefer to bargain individually may still...
...keep on calling such operations "frontier clashes" was fantastic. But neither Russia nor Japan wants open war. Both prefer to fight a little at a time as convenient. Chinese, whose air force today consists largely of Soviet-built planes, credited Russia with creating a diversion which last week led the worried Japanese to cease bombing Canton, gave that gory, undefended metropolis four days of respite...
...According to La Follette-committee evidence, Mr. Sokolsky has received nearly $40,000 in fees and expenses through Hill & Knowlton, chiefly for services to the Iron and Steel Institute and the National Association of Manufacturers. Mr. Sokolsky's philosophy: "I do not like coercion in any form. I prefer spontaneous enthusiasms...