Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nerve against nerve this week. The stakes, piled mountains high, amounted to nearly everything Europe values in this world. The grimly staking chiefs of the Great Powers passed from words of War and Peace to final drastic acts involving the lives of millions. With men saying good-by at railroad stations all over Europe, joining the colors with the strange, excited high good humor of people consciously risking death in great numbers, President Roosevelt suddenly drew attention to the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928. Under that agreement, nearly every nation in the world, including Japan, Italy and Germany, has renounced...
...Council this week finally agreed to take the first of many technical steps which would be necessary to invoke "Sanctions" against Japan, no longer a League member. The step: inviting Japan to take a seat at the Council table. Geneva experts said that, if Japan sends a refusal, more drastic steps could then be taken, but that if Japan simply never sends a reply, this would create a puzzling situation which the Council would then attempt to solve. Afraid Czechoslovakia would ask the Council to take the first Sanctions step toward Germany this week, Poland, a member of the Council...
...cement subterranean Maginot Line was more fully manned than ever before. General Edouard Réquin, in command of the Maginot Line, was abruptly promoted to the Superior War Council and several other high army commanders were given new key posts by Premier Daladier, who is his own drastic, jut-jawed Defense Minister...
...first big job was assistant to famed Criminal Lawyer Clarence Darrow in 1910, Charles D. Mahaffie was appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission eight years ago. Since then he has been ICC's chief dissenter - notably on railroad reorganizations which, he said in 1936, "have not been sufficiently drastic." Last week, with Commissioner Mahaffie alone dissenting, ICC approved a reorganization plan as drastic as any ever devised for a major U.S. railroad. Under this plan, portentous for an industry snowed under by its bonded debt, Chicago Great Western Railroad's capitalization will be cut from...
Thereupon the Governor took his drastic step. He ordered his soldiers to halt the NLRB proceedings, explained: "It is vital that the opposing parties . . . centre their attention on settlement of their differences." Said Maytag Attorney Edward Ford: "Rehashing the gripes of the men before a large crowd does not make for a peaceful atmosphere." Convinced that the company was trying to starve out the strikers the union professed to welcome martial intervention, said all that prevented settlement was Maytag's refusal to negotiate. Equally convinced that a State Governor lacked power to interfere with a Federal proceeding, NLRB ordered...