Word: americans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...persons may be deprived of homes and countries by the war. > Sent a warm message to Turkey's President Ismet Inönü on modern Turkey's 16th anniversary celebration. > Rapped the work of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, Inc., in its attempt to adjust Latin-American defaulted bonds held by U. S. investors, refused to comment on whether or not he favored scaling down the $1,000,000,000 Latin-American debts. Reason: the inter-American economic conference next month. > Tut-tutted flesh-creepers in a radio speech on the New York Herald Tribune Forum. Said...
...Murphy last week praised Mr. Hoover (for his measures to prevent industrial espionage), said the Department of Justice would be right behind him in the hunt on condemners of U. S. laws. Mr. Murphy also thanked the Dies Committee for its exposures, assured its Chairman Martin Dies that un-American wrongdoers will be remorselessly punished. But, said the Attorney General, his Department will act only on good evidence, will punish no citizen for his opinions-in short, will hunt no witches...
...Voorhis, knowing not what he had done, had already voted to publish the names, addresses, titles and salaries of 528 Federal employes, 30 District of Columbia schoolteachers, nurses, social workers, etc., four teachers at Howard (Negro) University, all of whom supposedly were or had been members of the American League for Peace and Democracy. Martin Dies did not pretend that they were Communists. He flatly announced that they were being punished for staying in a League which his committee had exposed as organized and controlled by the Communist Party...
...position, reiterated the U. S. claim that the ship be returned, and sounded the democratic note again by concluding: "Each person can judge for himself . . . how much light is shed on this entire transaction by the action of the Soviet Government in withholding adequate cooperation with the American Government with respect to the . . . essential facts pertaining to ... the whereabouts and welfare of the American crew...
...painfully interested observer of all this headline turmoil was Hester Huntington's ex-husband, father of her three handsome children. From his office at No. 49 Wall Street Ellery Huntington icily avowed: "My family has been here many generations and anything not absolutely 100% American is naturally distasteful...