Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was one thing calculated to console Japan and add confusion to the pandemonium about the Panay in the U. S. State Department last week, serious consideration of the Ludlow Resolution, which would tie the Government's hands in just such a crisis, was that thing. Secretary Hull promptly announced, with as much politeness as he could muster, that he was unable to perceive either "the wisdom or the practicality" of the measure. Rules Committee Chairman John J. O'Connor denounced it as "monstrous." The President-in response to whose wishes the House Military Affairs Committee reported favorably...
Wedding Anniversary. Carter Henry Harrison, 77, son of the Chicago mayor murdered in his fifth term during the 1893 World's Fair, himself five times Chicago's mayor, and Edith Ogden Harrison; their 50th; in Chicago. Said spry Mr. Harrison, who nightly takes a drink: "Family spats . . . add spice to married life, provided they are not allowed to go too far." Asked his wife's age, he replies: "She never gives the same one twice...
...probably wrong, but some of which must contain the germ of truth. Unfortunately, because of the complex social system, in which his elders refuse to yield the sceptre, dreading a change in the status quo, he is compelled to remain in idle unrest, able to do nothing. To add to his plight, he perceives with wonder that the old have lost hope and are resigned to to let the world follow its own highway to destruction...
Such a program is inconceivable. Simply to state it is to demonstrate its impossibility. Add to this the problem of war psychology, which many thinkers consider insoluble in itself, and there remains little hope that the United States could remain neutral in the event of a major...
...Wages & Hours Bill, not "because it is opposed to reasonable wages and working hours" but chiefly because it will add to ''the confusion and uncertainty," particularly among little businessmen, and because "there are not enough wise men in the country to perform the regulatory duties proposed...