Word: stake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repeal of the arms embargo, the rest of the show was anticlimactic. Two days later bulbous Tom Connally of Texas, his wavy grey locks disheveled, roared for repeal for two hours and 45 minutes. For two hours and three minutes Michigan's Vandenberg played hard for his stake in 1940 (TIME...
...fourth year of C. I. O., the two in sum are bigger and stronger than ever. Between them they claim 8,000,000 members, or about one in five U. S. workers. As the largest organized economic minorities in the U. S., they have an enormous stake in the democracy in which they live, a corresponding duty to the People of whom they are part. This week, after their fashions, they report to the People...
Ralph Hinchman Cutler Jr., returning as a senior to Harvard after a summer abroad, wrote in the Crimson: "In the present European war there is only one thing at stake: the supremacy and preponderance of the British Empire. The war appears to be merely a clash of rival imperialisms...
...Senate, yet no intimate friend, was even now as lonely as Franklin Roosevelt since the death of crabby, brilliant, gnomish Louis McHenry Howe. Coldly he could figure that this was a fight he must win, for not simply the Presidency but his Senate seat was at stake. Many a Michigan boss would like to see a more employable man in Washington...
...Greene will not say this outright. America need not join the fight until "issues vitally affecting our national interests" are at stake. But here Mr. Greene's interpretation of what these issues are leaves America very little choice. For it is his opinion that a "final victory of German force over Britain and France has implications impossible to reconcile with the future peace and security of our own country." Here, then, is the vital issue...