Word: impendingness
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Tariff. "The tariff afforded an opening to hosts of privilege for an assault less direct but far more devastating to the public pocketbook. We are told that America in 1921 was threatened from abroad by an 'impending avalanche of suddenly cheapened merchandise' from which it was narrowly saved...
"If I had so much as a ray of hope that the impending loan would be used for the restoration of devastated Russia or to succor her starving people, I should welcome this help with delight, without consideration through the hands of what Russian government it passed.
"Demobilization and liquidation remained to be completed. Huge accounts with the railroads were still unsettled. Transportation was crippled. Over $11,000,000,000 of unliquidated debts were due to us from foreign countries. The whole people were suffering from a tremendous deflation. Our banks were filled with frozen assets, and...
House of Lords. Lord Parmoor,* Lord President of the Council, assured their lordships that the Labor Government had no intention of abandoning the Sudan. Apparently, the impending visit to London of Saad Zaghlul Pasha, Premier of the Egyptian Government, had stirred up fearful forebodings in their lordships' bosoms.
Foreign Affairs. The King lauded the achievements of Italy during the past year in her conduct of foreign policy; laid special emphasis on Fiume (prolonged vivas); said "The greatest treaty today is the reparation problem and the questions connected with it. Italy is ready to do everything in her power...