Word: done
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that, whereas such representatives would be designated by the Governments concerned, any financing of the emergency emigration referred to would be undertaken by private organizations within the respective countries." The statement added that the committee would in no way interfere with work on the same problem currently being done by existing agencies; and that no country would be asked to receive more immigrants than its current quota laws permit. Invitations to help set up the committee went to Great Britain, France. Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and 20 South American republics...
...Reich's Master of the Hunt, Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring, the No. 2 Nazi. Before leaving Germany for Poland, former President Hoover took what seemed like a long-range dig at President Roosevelt. "Most of the nations I have visited," reported Herbert Hoover, "have done more in public health and housing for the lower-income groups than we have in America...
Last fortnight 61 Episcopal and Methodist bishops in the U. S. appealed to the Catholic hierarchy to remonstrate with the Rightists, all of whose leaders are Catholic, about bombing civilians. At Vatican City last week it was officially announced that Pope Pius has already done so "on his own initiative." Reported the semi-official papal newsorgan L'Osservatore Romano: "General Franco appeared to have been touched by the paternal interest of the Holy Father in the innocent victims of the war and sent to the Holy Father filial and reassuring explanations and declarations...
...explanation for laymen of modern physics and its origins was first suggested by Infeld. But Albert Einstein had been long fondling such a notion, readily agreed. Although he now speaks English quite well, Einstein is still reluctant to write in this new language. So the actual writing was done by Infeld. But it is not simply a ghostwritten job. Their friends, who did not know about the book for some time after it was actually under way, say that it is a "real project of collaboration." The scope, form and content of the book were agreed on and mapped...
...back yard suddenly looked malleable and inviting. He fooled around, did busts of Washington and Lincoln from pictures, but he could not fix the ears right. On his way home from work he dropped in at the Dallas Art Institute, asked Instructor Harry Lee Gibson how ears were done. On Instructor Gibson's advice, Sculptor Townsend did his next modeling from life -a bust of his pretty wife, Marie-and submitted it for the Dallas exhibition. Because sculpture in Dallas mud soon crumbles away, Instructor Gibson last week made a cast of the prizewinning bust, presented...