Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never more loudly than from the Chamber's president under Herbert Clark Hoover. Silas Hardy Strawn, a stout Republican pillar, spoke on security regulation, a subject which ranked a close second to NRA as the Chamber's chief interest. The hard-bitten Chicago lawyer refused to admit that he was a Roosevelt wolf-crier but his speech was shot with such phrases as "hysterical legislation . . . unbearable if not confiscatory taxes . . . lack of confidence, the greatest menace to the revival of normal business...
...Manhattan intellectual calls life. Literary historians will class it as an excellent example of a transition novel, the typical bill-of-fare of a halfway house. Oldsters will not be amused or touched, while most members of the generation that still, with lessening confidence, calls itself young, will admit that The Unpossessed is a telling caricature, the work of an artist who will undoubtedly do even better. Miles and Margaret lived unhappily together. He wanted to love her but he had a New England conscience which was always shutting her out. In the end, when he persuaded her to prefer...
...Brown." The Friends of the New Germany (estimated membership: 22,000) is the title of Herr Hitler's followers in the U. S. They wear Nazi-like uniforms, are brownshirts at heart and sometimes in fact, although their official dress calls for white shirts. Though they do not admit it, they are virtually the Nazi organization in the U. S. Unlike the other shirt groups they are mainly German-Americans with a great reverence for Hitler, a strong desire to uphold Hitlerism against the criticisms of U. S. Jews. They support the Hitler doctrines of "leadership" and "order"; that...
...astronomers have suggested other possible causes for the redshift, viz. cosmic dust scattered through space or a slowing of light's velocity after millions of years of travel. Once as fervid a believer in the expanding universe as Sir Arthur Eddington, Dr. Hubble was ready last week to admit that it might be an illusion. "The cautious observer," said he wryly, "refrains from committing himself to the present interpretation and employs the colorless term 'apparent velocity...
...jovial, double-chinned First Assistant Postmaster General William Washington Howes who testified that he had been "proud" of the service under private contractors, that cancellation had been actively pushed by lobbyists who "came in hosts, like a cloud of grasshoppers." Astute questioning by Senator Austin forced him to admit that at a meeting with airmail contractors last autumn-a meeting not unlike the "spoils conferences" which cost them their contracts-he had sought their "advice and consent" before cutting appropriations under a reduced budget. It was, he thought, the "wise and decent thing to do." Of mail operations under...