Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Vansittart descended from the Vansittart who was so elaborately wrong in his counter-resolutions to the report of the Bullion Committee in 1810? Perhaps being wrong runs in the family...
...hints that Thailand, which had a mild domestic crisis last week, might need Japanese "protection." Pointing straight at the easiest mark, Domei accused French Indo-China of persecuting pro-Japanese Annamites, of maintaining "close economic, military and political relations with Great Britain and the United States." Domei called for "counter-measures." The Japan Times and Advertiser, Foreign Office mouthpiece, said flatly: "If the alarming picture of anti-Japanese operations in Indo-China and neighboring States is only half true, this country would be justified in taking adequate measures for the protection of its interests." The advantage of attacking French Indo...
...German universities by filling their faculties with political stooges, real German scientists are at last risking their jobs and perhaps their lives to criticize dogmas which the Nazis have tried to substitute for science. Last week U.S. scientists were surprised to see in learned journals newly arrived from Germany counter-attacks against the great Nazi campaign, begun last year, to uproot Darwinism...
...Roman Catholic Church has flourished for so long: by fostering religious orders suited to the times-Benedictines in the Dark Ages to give a Christian meaning to manual labor, Franciscans in the 13th Century to offset the Church's luxury, Jesuits in the 16th Century to lead the Counter-Reformation...
...company's books. Meanwhile, they had encountered a very rugged character named James Franklin ("Frank") Dees, proprietor of the firm. Aged 60, weighing 200 pounds, his muscular physique topped off by iron-grey hair, an engaging grin and keen brown eyes, Phoneman Frank Dees fought back with a counter-complaint. He asked for permission to raise his rates, discontinue the exchange at nearby Livingston, force subscribers to pay their phone bills. Snapped he: "The kind of service they're gettin' is the kind they're payin...