Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this double negative, Secretary Hull last week, again with the help of Under Secretary Sumner Welles's forceful pen, dispatched an answer. He declared that expropriation without compensation is "bald . . . unadulterated confiscation"; that Mexico's attitude was alien to the constitutions and undermined confidence in the fair dealing of all 21 Republics of the Western Hemisphere; that Mexico ought at least to stop expropriating the lands of U. S. owners, agree to a two-man (U. S. and Mexican) commission to fix values, and start putting aside some cash to pay for lands already taken...
...Hull made no threat, but again his language was uncharacteristically strong: "Astonishing theory," "the proposition scarcely requires answer" etc. And his new words, widely read in Mexico, filled Mexicans with indignation and foreboding...
...towards Harvard--the idea of Cambridge which you have formed perhaps before you have seen it. Is it narrow and cynical, or broad and naive? Has it been illuminated or spoiled for you by parental words? Has it been crowned with a halo by your school friends? Whatever the answer, be open-minded when you reach Cambridge--and that means be suspicious of everyone and everything until you are sure in your own maturing mind who and what is good or bad. If you come with an open mind, you will accept with equanimity the eccentricities of the Harvard community...
General Franco's answer asked the British to explain how the Non-intervention Committee could possibly expect to get an accurate count on Leftist volunteers, since (the note charged) they: 1) are presented with Spanish names and Spanish passports; 2) do not have distinguishing marks; 3) are generally placed at the front; 4) could be hidden among the civilian population; 5) could be assigned to the medical corps...
...unusually alert foreign correspondent with vaguely radical leanings; 2) the wife of Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis. Guided by her most passionate emotion-a consuming hatred of Hitler-Columnist Thompson began writing with shrill assurance that startled readers. As insistent as a katydid, never at a loss for an answer, almost invariably incensed about something, her column has pleased a national appetite for being scolded. Today, her On the Record is printed in 155 newspapers with more than 7,000,000 readers. She is in constant demand as a radio and platform speaker...