Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French prestige never has been higher. The Americans freely admit that France is financially, economically and politically the outstanding power of Europe! This gives us obligations which I am convinced France will not fail to meet...
...during Christmas or summer vacation is no-body's business but his own. Carried to an extreme, this argument is absurd. It is obvious that the College could not tolerate a man who has been definitely accused of murder during the summer vacation. But it is hard to admit that a comparatively minor indiscretion should concern any one beside the individual and such others as have been directly connected. It is no more the concern of a man's educational institution than it is of his home town chamber of commerce...
...bound to be swept into power as the party out of office in a time of depression. While it is manifestly unfair to hold the Republican party responsible for the depression, that party has done incalculable harm, through its chief executive, by his Pollyannaish attitude or inability to admit the state of affairs throughout. And within the Democratic stronghold, no candidate is more impregnable. Roosevelt will be handicapped neither by the religious or dripping wet sentiments which ruined his predecessor. Owen D. Young is a symbol of that ogre, "Corporation," which is usually delirium tremens to the voter; Ritchie...
...there is another which few know. In the realm of literature there is his Autobiography, and Poor Richard. There is also the Saturday Evening Post if you want it, but you don't. Franklin, however, made other contributions to American letters, contributions which the Vagabond is frank to admit he sees only through a glass darkly. So, that this fog may be dispelled, he goes tomorrow at 10 o'clock to Harvard...
...gold ($22,000,000) made Romans jubilate last week. Where they came from interested Wall Street. No gold shipment of such size has cleared from the U. S. for Italy this year. Smug, the Bank of Italy (having probably obtained its U. S. gold via France) would admit only that Italy had got it, would use the precious stuff to keep her lira on the Gold Standard...