Word: aggressors
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...Roosevelt Administration was the buck so neatly passed to the U. S. President Hoover had earnestly tried to halt the shipment of arms to the Chaco. Then in April 1933 the House had passed an Administration resolution authorizing the President to impose an arms embargo on any aggressor nation anywhere in the world. When the resolution reached the Senate broad-beamed Hiram Johnson had it amended to apply to both sides in a fight, on the theory that a one-sided embargo would be more likely to draw the U. S. into a war than to keep...
...Neill's "Days Without End" on the boards. The hostesses in The Idle Hour Cafe talk with point and guste; they know that life is life. The heroine knows it too, but she has the old hourgeois respectability on her mind, and keeps pretty stiff-backed. Young "Dynamite," the aggressor, tries all manner of persuasions, from the argument that "you haven't lived till you've lived" to the simpler muscular method. And despite his inordinate skill, it takes just two acts (out of two) for the lady to make up her mind. Your cousin from out West would call...
...provisions of the Kellogg Pact do not specify what measures shall be taken against an outlaw nation it cannot be forgotten that Ambassador Davis, speaking for the President of the United States at the outset of the Geneva Conference, indicated clearly that America would not side with the aggressor in any conflict...
...There shall be recognized as an aggressor," declared this epochal pact, "that State which shall be the first to have committed one of the following actions...
...next two checks came from Britain and Japan. Norman Davis' blunt definition of an aggressor-one whose armed forces are found on alien soil-was amplified to include a country that had taken any one of the following steps...