Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hence we must at a given moment be able to mobilize 5,000,000 men thoroughly armed, we must strengthen our navy; while aviation, in which I believe more than ever, must be on such a large scale and so powerful that the noise of its motors must surpass any other noise, and the area of the wings of our airplanes must obscure the sun from our land. Then between 1935 and 1940, when we shall reach the crucial point in European history, we will be able to make our voice heard, and see at last our rights acknowledged [loud...
What effect, if any, the break will have on Senator Borah and others who advocate American recognition of the Soviet remains to be seen. As far as the general public is concerned, however, it can have but one result; to strengthen the feeling that the Russian Government is not yet to be trusted. The post-war flurry of the "Bol-shevist menace", with other absurdities of the time, has passed; but the mysterious motives of the Soviet Union have not yet been brought to light. The United States, as things stand at present, does more business with Russia than England...
...national representative of all proper business activities, the widening confidence and co-operation between Government and organized industry, based on its lengthening record of high ideals and trustworthiness, have so multiplied the responsibilities resting on the office of elected president that a step has been decided upon to strengthen the direction of the Chamber"?the election of a permanent chairman of the board of directors of the Chamber. More and more, as the Chamber has gained influence in the affairs of this country, initiative of its policies has drifted toward its executives...
...told how -she had not received one cent of dividends and how she had appealed to the State banking commission, to the State Supreme Court, to the Governor. They did nothing to help her. "I feel that I have been gagged, hogtied and delivered," said Mrs. Felton. "May God strengthen your ("newspaper! arm in your fight for a law that will give women and children and all depositors better protection than they now have for funds they put in Georgia banks...
...remedy: "Strengthen local leadership and administrative control" of the stock exchange