Word: divert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening years of the twentieth century, British and German commercial interests secured a dominating position in the markets of South America. Supported by a cunning diplomatic policy, and seeing the vast possibilities of the virgin forests and rugged Andes, foreign capital began to develop these resources and to divert the ever increasing flow of trade to their own countries. Not until the third decade of this century did American interests begin to concentrate attention on the possibilities of the Latin market and to demand diplomatic assistance in the form of favorable tariff agreements. Yet the majority of these negotiations failed...
Japan defies the Western world to do more than pen high-sounding diplomatic protests against her actions. She relies on the current terror throughout the world of military hostility and takes heart at any disturbances in Europe which may divert the attention of the world from her amibitious schemes in the pacific. The United States and Europe must either cooperate in taking a definitely hostile stand against further Japanese aggression if they intend to retain their authority unimpaired, or be prepared to resign it to Japanese militarists forthwith...
...times the teachers there were underpaid and the school facilities inadequate. Unless the government comes to their aid, these schools will this year be able to provide terms of only a few weeks. And with relief funds flowing in such golden streams it would indeed seem wise to divert but a portion to this emergency in the most noble cause of youth...
...investing his own money and instead accepted the people's money thereby enabling them to acquire pretty stock certificates they otherwise would not have had. But some big bad men thought to worm their way into the companies he had formed and, rather than permit this attempt to divert benefits from the beloved peepul, honest old Sam spent their last nickel in an attempt to prevent it. Bunk! Your attempt to make a martyred hero out of this old fellow is nauseating. . . . You say that "in place of small local operating plants he built big utilities - and built them...
...most questions. Last fortnight Brother Seton, who is president of National Distillers Products, also had something to say about taxes. He dusted off National Distillers' famed publicity stunt -the whiskey dividend of 1932-and used it once again, not to attract attention but to divert it. Both his customers and his Government were disgruntled with him and all other distillers over high liquor prices. So President Porter released a breakdown of the taxes and expenses which the stockholders had been asked to pay on the whiskey they had received as a dividend...