Word: setting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittman believed that the mere question of repeal of the arms embargo was but a minor phase of the problem of national security. But as a practical man he knew how thunderous a drum-roll his Isolationist foes could beat up over that single issue. He set himself to smash their drumheads, roll the drum himself...
...shipping to nations bordering the U. S. via inland waters, 3) shipping by air and sea within the Western Hemisphere, to any port, of mail, persons, personal effects, and goods to be used exclusively by U. S. vessels. Penalty for violations of any major section of the bill was set at $50,000, five years in jail, or both...
...having failed to work up much enthusiasm for mild Mr. Woodring, the President chose for Assistant Secretary a go-getting West Virginia lawyer and Legionnaire, Louis Johnson. Reports that Mr. Johnson had been promised his boss's job soon reached the newspapers and the boss. Secretary Woodring thereupon set himself to keeping his job and getting rid of Mr. Johnson, bringing to that effort a hitherto unsuspected vigor. Assistant Secretary Johnson set himself to running the War Department, acting very much like a No. 2 man who had been made No. i in all but title...
...Higher and Higher!" It was no fun for A. Hitler to watch the "Berchtesgaden technique" of bluff & bludgeon being successfully used on Estonia last week by Russia. Germans have always hoped to dominate the Baltic. As long as 20 years ago German General Staff officers had perfected a fine set of plans for invading Russia with a thrust through Estonia to seize Leningrad. The Führer may or may not have realized before what his chumming up with the Bolsheviks might cost him in the Baltic sphere, as well as in the Balkans, but he saw every reason...
Moscow correspondents reported that this clause gravely alarmed most of their Russian friends, for the same reason that it set most Germans beaming with elation: it implied that J. Stalin in the ultimate pinch might put the Red Army into World War II on the side of A. Hitler...