Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reggie van Ten Eyck Schuyler was in his cups, but still that didn't stop him from sympathizing with Mr. Hans Croyen, who had just murdered his baby and consequently was very sad. This is the end, Croyen, and the reason is that I am so sad," said Reggie van Ten Eyck Roosevelt...
...Hard to Stop...
...good will: 2) The State Department did not take a stronger stand. The U. S. had economic weapons to force Britain to show due respect, could send naval escorts to convoy merchant ships. What if a U. S. vessel should defy British patrol boats at Gibraltar, refuse to stop and submit to a search? One steamship company, anxious to get a vessel past Gibraltar, thought of ordering its skipper to do just that-shut off all radio communication, black out and try to slip through. Such an incident might easily transcend the adventure of the City of Flint...
...talking out of turn, warned that the Japanese Army might have to "reconsider appropriate steps." Japan's Army spokesman told a fantastic cock-&-buller about a Chinese plot against the life of U. S. Ambassador to China Nelson Trusler Johnson. The Japanese press said it was time to stop "courting favor" with the U. S. In private, statesmen loudly complained that Franklin Roosevelt was trying to wreck the "New Order in East Asia...
Last week, more than a month after announcing his appointment of Myron C. Taylor as his private Ambassador to the Pope, the President had cause to stop, look and listen. Representatives of 15,000,000 U. S. Christians (Baptists, Lutherans, Seventh Day Adventists) let their uneasiness be loudly heard. The National Lutheran Council, representing two-thirds of 4,867,124 Lutherans, formally objected to the Taylor appointment. Meeting for the first time since the President's announcement, the executive committee of the Federal Council of Churches (24 denominations) approved the appointment in so far as it is "strictly temporary...