Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outdone by Secretary Hull, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes last week also found means to rebuke Nazi Germany, also presumably with Presidential approval. Last month, the State Department approved shipment of 2,000,000 cu. ft. of helium gas, on which the U. S. has a virtual monopoly, for commercial use in German Zeppelins. In Washington, Secretary Ickes, charged with exacting a German guarantee that the gas would be used only for peaceful purposes, let it be known that he was holding up shipment because he could find no way of drawing up a sufficiently watertight contract...
...Harvard undergraduates. Too often another motive appears to have crept in, and men of fame as well as fortune have been appointed with the hope that they might feel like paying for the honor accorded them. This confusion of the ends with the means has led to the virtual death of the Visiting Committee as a factor in molding Harvard instruction...
...aviator, created an international crisis after the Armistice by seizing the Austrian seaport of Fiume, which he held for four months. Supposedly a great & good friend of Benito Mussolini, who made him Prince of Montenevoso and President of the Royal Academy, bald, brooding d'Annunzio lived as a virtual prisoner, year ago melodramatically announced that he planned to dissolve himself in acid...
...More orthodox capitalist conduct of the finances of the Fatherland, whereas the Nazi radicals have always been for virtual socialization of Germany...
...program of "social revolution" for Mexico's proletariat which is now encountering rough weather. For three years of his six-year term he insisted he was still pointing Left. Suddenly, two months ago he pushed through measures which smack of a totalitarian state and make him virtual dictator of Mexico. In rapid succession he dissolved his and Mexico's majority party, reorganized it to give the peasants and the army control, thus pulling labor's teeth. Next he shook up his Cabinet to make it 100% Cárdenas, shifted army heads to tighten his hold...