Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slight injustice done--and this is most unlikely--it is far outweighed by the good that will derive from the cleaning up of an intolerable mess. Mr. Roosevelt's action in this case has been thoroughly courageous and essentially correct; the tactics of his opponents, particularly in the Lindbergh affair has been despicable and characteristically hypocritical. I do not believe that many people will be taken in by their blather about unfairness, despite their control of a good portion of the press and the immense influence they wield due to their wealth; and their success can only be viewed...
Said Sheriff J. J. Smith of Jefferson County: "I will not confirm anything but I will say this: the affair looks powerful bad. . . . Somebody is trying to cover something...
...doctor's thesis on Heraclitus, then subsided into the anonymity of a pedagog. When the first version of Der Untergang des Abendlandes (The Decline of the West) was finished, he could find no German publisher, brought it out in Vienna. By 1923 it had become a world affair, reached the U. S. in 1926. No longer hidden under a bushel of schoolboys' papers, Spengler's threatening light shines now from a huge-roomed Munich apartment overlooking the Isar. He has collected many a painting and objet d'art, a library of several thousand volumes. Said...
...June, 1830, no one suspected that by the end of the month Charles X would be fleeing from Paris and his government collapsed. A week ago not even the most optimistic royalist would have predicted that the resentment of the people at the Stavisky affair would attain its present proportions: yet yesterday, the Parisian revolt began to resemble a national revolution both in violence and in extent. A week ago the question was whether or not the Chautemps government would get a vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies; today there is serious doubt if the Republic itself...
...reason for this turmoil is, of course, the unsavory scandal created by the revelation that members of the government were connected with the Stavisky affair. No one is directly implicated, but the mere breath of rumor has been enough to inflame French public opinion to a fever pitch; the incompetence and mismanagement of which the government has been guilty have shocked and disgusted the public. In addition to this there is ample reason for assuming that the "suicide" of M. Stavisky was arranged by the police as the most efficient means of keeping that unfortunate financier from talking indiscreetly...